AW: [syndicate] Trans.: [thingist] IAM SPEAKER SERIES: SarahRobbins, March 12, 2007

[clemos]

I guess I hate both SL and myspace just as much as I hate First Life
and its residents (realizing that they are actually the very same
persons!).

Then as I told you, I prefer to meet them on myspace (which I can
close) or on SL (which I can close) than in FL (which I cannot so
easily close)
It looks like jokes, but the problem with Virtual Reality and ie with
the "Friends" relationships as introduced by Myspace is that it looks
as if users were willingly looking for that kind of post-modern
relationship where there are no rules, and you can be "Friends"
without actually engaging yourself in a strong relation (which would
imply solidarity, mutual help, duty, sacrifices,...), where you can
"zap" between persons.
This example perversion of the "Friend" word in myspace really
frightens me, because the actual concept of friendship itself (even in
FL) is affected.
As always, there are exceptions and cool stuff going on in these
"worlds", but at a global scope, it's a big mass of network connected
mediocrity which in my opinion obviously tends to pervert FL (reality)
by perverting the nature of relationships between people by
multiplying illusion (and thus lie).

+++++
clemos

On 3/6/07, fmadre at free.fr <fmadre at free.fr> wrote:
> joking apart, there seems to be a divide between people who are on
> myspace and those who are on second life. I think, judging from the
> examples I've seen, that second life is favored by those who are
> enclined to new ageism and have this mythological idea that technology
> free them from their bodily constraints whereas myspace is favored by
> those who see it as an extension of their real life activities and
> encounters
>
> so, I definitely prefer myspace
> http://www.myspace.com/oncleho
> although I never go there anymore
>
> and I will never go to second life
>
> f.
> > On 3/6/07, claudia westermann <media at ezaic.de> wrote:
> >
> >> we are too old for myspace
> >
> > not at all !
> > look :
> > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/06/eveningnews/main1286130.shtml
>
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