"I understand that they're in California and that it's apparently fashionable to imitate Jobs-like megalomaniacal optimism about one's own importance. I understand that self-motivation requires them to believe that what they do is the highest cause, and that it's important for one's career to appear to be a Jihad on behalf of the employer."
I get the feeling that so-called social media is often largely insular media. People get their circle of friends and associates, and that becomes their whole world, which in turn becomes the whole world.
There are people who believe that if they put something on Twitter or FB then they've announced something to the world, and now everybody knows. The idea that vast numbers of people are not only not on one or anther social media tool, but simply do not give a rat's ass, is a completely alien concept.
People get their circle of friends and associates, and that becomes their whole world, which in turn becomes the whole world.
You're right - and I'm afraid it might be even worse than that.
A world built of online "contacts" rather than real life relationships is a shallow one at best. So 10,000 people watched my video, and 1000 of them became my friends. How many of those will console me when I lose a parent? And if they won't - then why am I spending time on them?
One justification is that it's the "whole world." In other words, it's important. Maybe it doesn't mean anything - but it's "very important".
I just hope a whole generation of people (myself included) don't wake up one day to discover that we have no real social ties, no firm bedrock on which to anchor identities and lives in the real world.
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"I understand that they're in California and that it's apparently fashionable to imitate Jobs-like megalomaniacal optimism about one's own importance. I understand that self-motivation requires them to believe that what they do is the highest cause, and that it's important for one's career to appear to be a Jihad on behalf of the employer."
I get the feeling that so-called social media is often largely insular media. People get their circle of friends and associates, and that becomes their whole world, which in turn becomes the whole world.
There are people who believe that if they put something on Twitter or FB then they've announced something to the world, and now everybody knows. The idea that vast numbers of people are not only not on one or anther social media tool, but simply do not give a rat's ass, is a completely alien concept.
People get their circle of friends and associates, and that becomes their whole world, which in turn becomes the whole world.
You're right - and I'm afraid it might be even worse than that.
A world built of online "contacts" rather than real life relationships is a shallow one at best. So 10,000 people watched my video, and 1000 of them became my friends. How many of those will console me when I lose a parent? And if they won't - then why am I spending time on them?
One justification is that it's the "whole world." In other words, it's important. Maybe it doesn't mean anything - but it's "very important".
I just hope a whole generation of people (myself included) don't wake up one day to discover that we have no real social ties, no firm bedrock on which to anchor identities and lives in the real world.