Fashionably late as usual…but the best ‘til last?!
What has revived this topic for me?-Well, recently I discovered that although I can deactivate my face book account, I can never actually delete my account. Is this common knowledge? This information as only confirmed my initial suspicions and qualms with web technologies, social networking sites in particular. It always seems that you have to give up so much information just to gain some small privilege, i.e. having to sign up to websites in order to watch movies when you have this feeling that you’re signing your life away. Prior to my engagement with face book my suspicions were most fuelled by experiences of friends. More worryingly were the news reports highlighting cases where disagreements escalated on social networking sites ended in violence. To me it seems these cases stemed from a flippant comment posted can be mulled over and analysed for hours by another. This shows how the media context can change meaning because traditionally writing letters was a private affair and was something the writer took time to think about because unlike these websites it costs money.
Recently, I had first hand experience of “How did that end up on face book?” For this years’ birthday celebration I had a fancy dress party, where I decided that if I had one wish I would turn back time so I dressed up as a baby. On the night I was in good cheer and wanted to make the most of the theme as I had never been invited to a fancy dress party never mind thrown one. I did pose for pictures but I was still horrified to see it had been posted on face book by a good friend of mine. “How can a picture that you posed for; cause such shock and disturbance?” you may ask and I ask myself? Answer? Nobody asked me! Common courtesy, not so common anymore! For me this is the danger that begs the question why is it all the rules change and boundaries “go out the window” when it comes to the web???
"Baby Got Blog!"
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