So Unpopular. Confidentiality

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

Who can remember how in the pre-Internet era people were more secretive?

They showed themselves and their home album either to relatives and close friends, or only to those outsiders who are added to the family, in the circle of relatives (potential husbands of the wife, etc.). And now everything is open and on display, videos are made about everything in a row and posted on the network.

Social media is great, isn't it ?! Previously, we suffered so much from loneliness, we often had to leave the house, meet with friends and make new acquaintances. But how tired we are of this, horror!

And now - beauty: without leaving home, we can communicate with hundreds or thousands of friends and add thousands of new people as friends! Wow! What a grace! We can even upload our home photo archive to the network and show everyone how interesting and positive we are, how we lived and how we live now, what relationships we have, what cool friends, what bright parties! Wow! You can forget about unnecessary privacy forever. And those who still adhere to it are just freaks who, probably, have nothing to show. They are such shitty losers in life that they just suck, how do they even live?

It seems to me that in today's society people are looking for where else to show themselves and tell about themselves, to whom to tell about their advantages and disadvantages, which are shown from the right (glamorous!) Angle. An obsession with social networks has even appeared: people depend on the number of likes, reposts, comments, subscribers, friends, etc.: if there are few of them, it is bad, if there are many, then it is good. People just go crazy with loneliness, while as if they have millions of virtual friends on social networks.

But back to the privacy issue that is so unpopular now. Let's look at it all from the point of view of meaning. Why all this? What do social networks, forums, and the like give? A social network creates a connection between a physical person and his electronic avatar.

This is something like a modern Tamagotchi (there was such an electronic toy once: it had to be fed, watered, put to sleep, looked after, otherwise the electronic pet would get sick, wither and die, albeit for fun). You have a virtual pet with your photo on the facestop, with a wall on which your posts will be posted, on the assessment of which your personal self-esteem depends.

Moreover, it is easy to be convinced of the strong influence of other people's likes and ratings on a person's self-esteem: try to provoke someone on his wall, under any of his posts (for example, swear, give a negative assessment). Here immediately such a fuss rises! And this is only because a real person will begin to defend his "pet" with all his guts on the page. Yes, he will fight for him, as for himself physical. Because he cannot separate himself from the electronic double!

Society for the most part and so does not really stand on ceremony with the high self-esteem of any person. And then there is also a shadow electronic world (an understudy of our real life), in which there is also a struggle for self-esteem. And this is repeated in every social network. If you are a member of three social networks, consider that you live at least four lives, you are torn into four pieces, in each of which you must assert yourself and update, educate subscribers, please the eye, delight with the smoothness of forms and depth of views.

Think if you really need it? Or can these parallel realities be reduced to one or two at the most? So more time will appear, life will be cleaner, brighter. The less the electronic activity, the more the real, physical activity, which is the key, driving all other realities.