Don't overtweet it
"On Twitter or Facebook you’re trying to express something real about who you are," she explained. "But because you’re also creating something for others’ consumption, you find yourself imagining and playing to your audience more and more. So those moments in which you’re supposed to be showing your true self become a performance. Your psychology becomes a performance."Except for the heaviest social network users, I'm not sure I see the problem. But anyway, it's food for thought, here.
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Sure glad I haven't joined that herd.
Posted by Jon | August 2, 2010 5:17 PM
In other news, General Franco is still dead.
I don't think these are new problems: Samuel Pepys probably was trying to create a persona. Every writer of autobiographical stuff does. Twitter, blogs, etc. only increases the number of people who do so, and the frequency of creating a self (as the article points out...maybe her beef was with the frequency of self-creation-for-public-consumption).
I know damn well that I was creating a self on my late blog, and that I do the same on Facebook (I still doubt I'll ever make the leap to Twitter). Aren't all of us? Don't we withhold some information and foreground some in any conversation? That's manufacturing a self for public consumption every bit as much as Twitter is.
There's nothing new in this article.
Posted by Paul Hamann | August 2, 2010 7:52 PM