Jason Sutter//blog
17 Apr 2011—values
Deconstructing construction
It may be Wally that one of the reasons that we don’t know what is going on is that when we’re there at a party, we’re all too busy performing.
Scott Rosenberg, in his book Say Anything…
Some amount of narcissistic behavior seems to come with the territory of youth, of course. But what worried adults may have missed as they wrung their hands was that Facebook’s users did not seem to take it nearly as seriously as they did. They saw it less as a place to discover one’s self than as a stage for entertaining their friends. Alice Mathias, a recent college graduate, tried to school her elders in a 2007 New York Times op-ed piece that described Facebook as a kind of “online community theater”: “It’s all comedy: making one another laugh matters more than providing useful updates about ourselves, which is why entirely phony profiles were all the rage before the grown-ups signed in.”
The realest profiles are the phoniest.
Until they become too real.
Which is to say: too phony.
Filed under: identity social media
