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Emily Nussbaum of New York magazine posted a really fascinating article about the internet generation gap - how young people today view the internet and its opportunities differently. It is really interesting to me as someone who has had a long 'net presence, and has a lot of close net contacts.
I have been thinking a lot about how the internet connects you more solidly to your past and past relationships. Without it, would I still be as close to everyone from Fredericton as I am now? Would I still be in touch with people like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
skjaere, or longrat, or have friended people from Sheffield that I barely knew during the year I lived there? How else would I keep in touch with tsiankiio, or any other of the ECU friends for who I caved and got a myspace account? How does the maintenance of those old relationships affect my ability to grow as a person, and to move on and forge new relationships? It is a difficult balance of time to spend time with both my 'online friends' versus my 'real life friends'...
I posted a picture of my boobs in here a week or so ago without a single thought to any possible negative consequences. What does that say about my conceptions of privacy, and so forth?
The article implies that people younger than myself care even less for the distinctions. While I am fairly careful about posting personal information in some contexts.... I don't really care, and I'm not really concerned. I am not afraid of being stalked or what have you despite the fact that I know people to whom it has happened! Then again, I'm not really afraid of being mugged when I am out walking alone at night either, so maybe I'm just not especially cautious to begin with ;P
Anyway, it was very thought provoking to me. I am fascinated by internet culture, and I think ti would be cool to see more anthropological/sociological studies into the phenomenon...
I have been thinking a lot about how the internet connects you more solidly to your past and past relationships. Without it, would I still be as close to everyone from Fredericton as I am now? Would I still be in touch with people like
skjaere, or longrat, or have friended people from Sheffield that I barely knew during the year I lived there? How else would I keep in touch with tsiankiio, or any other of the ECU friends for who I caved and got a myspace account? How does the maintenance of those old relationships affect my ability to grow as a person, and to move on and forge new relationships? It is a difficult balance of time to spend time with both my 'online friends' versus my 'real life friends'...I posted a picture of my boobs in here a week or so ago without a single thought to any possible negative consequences. What does that say about my conceptions of privacy, and so forth?
The article implies that people younger than myself care even less for the distinctions. While I am fairly careful about posting personal information in some contexts.... I don't really care, and I'm not really concerned. I am not afraid of being stalked or what have you despite the fact that I know people to whom it has happened! Then again, I'm not really afraid of being mugged when I am out walking alone at night either, so maybe I'm just not especially cautious to begin with ;P
Anyway, it was very thought provoking to me. I am fascinated by internet culture, and I think ti would be cool to see more anthropological/sociological studies into the phenomenon...
contemplative
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I used to write a lot of long letters too, especially when I'd go away for the summer to camps and such. I still like sending/recieving mail - I just don't seem to have the time. I probably spend it all procrastinating on the internet ;p
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Personally I enjoy the meeting-new-people/keeping-in-touch aspect of the Net. Without it, we probably wouldn't be discussing this right now! However, I do try very hard not to post personal or possibly sensitive information. Not even in friends-locked posts. That's just common sense...
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Anyhow! I definitely think that the internet enables the maintenance of relationships that would have deteriorated without instantaneous communication. Not only that, but as a different medium, different from anything previous and yet bearing some odd similarities to some, it creates whole new mods of communication between people.
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My $.02
Darned martial arts!
I also wonder sometimes if it's because I'm from a generation that remembers when the internet wasn't there. I'll have to read the article and see what I think.
For now, however, I have 80 email messages to read (seriously).
Peace!
GB!
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PLEASE send me a nasty e-mail e dot a dot laycock
AT SHU dot AC dot UK
with your address so I can get off my tail and send you the stuff before you move again!
Please feel to berate my general crapness!
:)
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As for privacy - well, the internet's kind of anonymous, even when you know the people involved. It's a bit like the 'OK I want to tell you this but don't look at me because I'll get embarrassed' phenomenon. Far easier to open up online, I always find.