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What year do you think is the boundary between old web and new web? I believe this forum was invented at the end of 2005, which makes it the new web IMO, but the funny part is it's more like the old web. And if anything, this forum gets more popular with time.
Well, I was just using the wording "old web" based on HurricaneDC's post.
I was referring to the two separate cultural trends of firstly a pseudonymous/separate internet identity, and an internet as extension of public self that spills over online; they probably blended into one another sometime in the mid-2000s and continues now.
One when internet was young and not yet mainstream, people were not used to this anonymity. It was considered really fascinating that with a click of the button you could talk to someone from another continent. It was also a really "post-modernist" (for lack of a better word) time about crafting your own identity. Behind a screen name, it didn't matter where you worked, what country you were from and even what gender you were. It was just taken for granted that everyone crafted their own identity and engaged each other on those terms.
But it was also considered dorky that you'd escape to your online identity rather than socialize in real life.
The trend started, IMO when (it was probably inevitable) people started thinking less in terms of "crafting identity" online but just treated the internet as another place for the public life to spill over. Social networks pushed the trend forward. Myspace was a nudge towards this, but it still had an obviously more "craft your own identity" vibe. It was a bit artsy and "Bohemian" and people still treated it distinct from your "public self". Facebook, was a stronger form of this, became even where it's like a living yearbook repurposed online, carrying all your networks and cliques with you. It became even stronger with Facebook mobile and people posting their locations wherever they went, people using these media to network for business etc. where there is essentially no separation of self into online and offline.
Now, it's considered weird that you don't have an online presence (like on Facebook, Twitter or any one of these sites) and you might be seen as a geeky loner, whereas before, you were a geeky loner if you did have an online presence! How times change...
In essence, it's a continuum trend between internet as a gated community and internet as extension of daily life.
Now that was a long-winded post, but I think a lot of people are noticing this trend too.
Ever heard of being out at an event and updating from your blackberry????
But in the scheme of things, who cares what you're doing at these events unless it's a friends or family event. But there are way too many people on fb saying and doing assinine things. It's very, very boring to me. I'd rather be out there in life doing something and not texting what I'm doing. I don't have the need to let people know exactly what I'm doing at all times. As a matter of fact, I'm just the opposite, I don't want anyone to know what I'm doing because it's MY life.
People care when celebrities do mundane things. That's the whole point of twitter.
Really, not people that have lives. I don't give a rat's azz if Justin Bieber eats an ice cream cone or not. And really that's not the whole point of twitter either. You're wrong on both counts.
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