"Cocooning is out. The individual only exists if it is part of a group."

"quote"



Who is your group?
Your family? Your friends (online or rl)? Your collegues? Neighbours?
All the fans of your national soccerteam? ;-)


Questions:
Are you defined by people you know? Or by people who know you?
And if so, who defines you? Those same friends and family?

Or the whole world?


People show themselves. To everyone.
They have a bbq-party. They take pictures. And put pictures on Flickr for the world to see.

Do you see how many friends I have?
Do you see how nice, fun and cute they are?
Do you see my lovely garden?
Do you see how much work I had to put in to make it look like that?

Hey, do you see I had changed my haircolor? I like it much better this way! Don't you agree? Please comment that you agree! ;-)

Do you see where I have been in the world? I've done all the continents in the last ten years. Met so many people and cultures.
I've been to the end of the world! And damn, NO connection whatsoever!

Do you see the online games I play? And more importantly ...
Do you see how high my scores are? I am goooooood!!
Come on, challenge me! I will kick your ass!!

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Do you see my family?
Do you see how wonderful they are? How proud I am of them?
Do you see how important they are to me ....... ?

Take another look at my friends.
They have been so wonderful and good to me. I am so lucky!
Do you see how important they are to me ......?

This is my way of showing that.
They give me sense of self. They care for me and I for them.
I am so gratefull. And I want the world to know!

We define each other.


Do you see ....... me?


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Generations .......

Bedtime story from the digital rat

At one time, most people used to be offline. And some people were online.
Those "some people" were considered to have no life!
The OFFLINERS laughed at the ONLINERS.

Over time, as leaves grow and fall....
Over time, as one president gets into an affair and another gets laughed at...
Over time, as my weight goes up and doesn't come down....
More and more people are getting online.

People ask Google "why is the sky so high?", and Google shows 53million results
People write tips and reviews and how-to's and share the knowledge around
eHow.com describes how to tell a George Bush joke
and YouTube becomes a "new free channel"

Now, SO MANY people are online and some people get left behind and remain offline.
Now, the ONLINERS laugh at the OFFLINERS.

Interesting twist isn't it?

p.s. I SHOULD make a funky animation out of this!

Real life Twitter! How social can you get??

How come that talk like this looks fine reading it on screen?
And looks reaalllyy weird in real life?

Would you go out on the street and call out everything you talk about on the web?
Duuuh!

And still. The effects would be the same. Words would be the same. The person 'saying' them is the same. And also the same is: everybody can hear you! How social can you get?

So ..... what is it then ???

Aileen HELPP!!