I decided to
start my own blog so that I can post to my social websites, forums and discussion
groups under my own branding, ME! Who knows where Facebook and all the others
will be in the future?
I read a very
interesting article for school recently called “The Facebook Mirror” that
really got me thinking why I don’t want these social sites “Mirror Ware” to own
all my evidence of my self-projections.
And it is this mirror, the seductive invitation to reflect us and only
us back to ourselves that will damn us.
On Facebook, We
post everything that is happy, pretty and proud. Or we post some object or
person as an icon. Puppy, baby (MY GOD SO MANY BABY PICTURES), Kitty, our high
school pictures. Like the article says “Identity
Airbrushing”. We trade the pleasure of
imagining the absent reader for the imagined adoring gaze of ourselves. And then
we expect our friends to “like” our posts, pictures ect. Immediately, and to
shower us with praises.
Couldn’t we all
have blogs? You can subscribe, post pictures, chat. Everything Facebook offers.
Imagine: no more dull status updates with
shameless self-promoters, and people of a friends that send you game invites every
day.
I wonder if I will be guilty of the same thing on my blog? Here
are some promises that I WILL NOT DO:
· * Let me tell you every detail of my day. “I had a
pop tart for breakfast”
· * Self-Promote myself with every update on what I have achieved
· * Be the Town Crier – Breaking news
· * Details of my sex life, marital troubles and bodily
functions
· *The sympathy-Baiter “Man, Am I glad that’s over”
· *Sell, Ask for support for a cause, Sign my
petition, Ask to Play Sim Social with me. Tell you the top five *cars I have
owned, poke you, Ask for a quiz, ask for your birthday, phone number, personal
information or to join a group.
Let me know what you think.
Now excuse me while I go post this story to my Facebook page.
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