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Whether you spoke to them on person or talked on the phone, when you interact with them it would be a real person and not some avatar of themselves. This is si
by jsz0 16y ago
Whether you spoke to them on person or talked on the phone, when you interact with them it would be a real person and not some avatar of themselves.
This is simply nostalgia. Some people have always been posers, phonies, narcs, fakers, wanna-bes, tools, charlatans, jive turkeys, bullshitters, etc. I don't think we can blame this one on Facebook.
- JeffL 16y agoYes, but, doesn't Facebook encourage this sort of thing more than in the past? It takes a lot less of ... something to put that you are a certain way on Facebook than it does to claim it face to face to another person. People are a lot less likely to call you on something you put on Facebook than something you claim to their face.
- edanm 16y agoWhy do you say that? I'm not convinced. I've met plenty of people who have claimed various liked and disliked in the offline world that were... exaggerated. Especially in the dating world, or the job interview world.
- SkyMarshal 16y agoAgreed. And people have been 'reinventing' themselves since Downtown and Madonna, if anything FB is just a new way to do an old thing.
- farawaygarry 16y agoFacebook obviously didn't created those behaviors, as it didn't created voyeurism. But they cannot be exculpated from being a cause of voyeurism spreading out the way it is. I mean sure, their success is huge, and lots of people would have a hard time living without FB. But if prostitution or heroine was legal, it also would have lots of success and (more)users. But would we be right to say it's a good thing ? And yes, voyeurism is not heroine, but it's certainly not a good thing either.