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

[fmadre at free.fr]

interesting, clemos
but tell me how different that is from this here mailing list
ain't we all friends in here ? haven't we been pretending we were friends ?
perhaps, this is true, we have not used the word
friend

to illustrate your last point, do you have real life examples of your  
friendships being disturbed by online frienship ?



> 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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