I spent a great deal of time thinking about what had been so difficult in writing the first blog. I still don’t really know, but I do know it has something to do with being public, with exposure, with putting something of yourself out there, and with that comes the whole gamma of receptive and subjective reaction that shapes the perception of another on oneself. The opening, or in at least in part the sharing of a subjective experience always involves a set of repercussions in the perceptive self we create in the world.
This is why the internet (internets) has (ve) allowed for such interesting social configuration in part of it being a process of a postmodern geography as well as the simultaneous dialectical creations of the individual in parallel worlds and space. The space that we partake is no longer physical, nor is this a new concept, but the projection of the subconscious, the memory, and the dreamscape into a more palpable form necessarily implies consequences we are yet to fully understand. When I create a profile in a social network site such as Facebook, Myspace etc, I am consciously creating an image of what I perceive to be. I am no longer working within a the subjective perceptions that real life encounters give us, but with conscious, and meticulous selective sets of information that, strategically follow an intention that we would like to have of ourselves as well as what we would like other to have of us. Thus arises an entire new set of questions that we have held for granted, or resolved in face-to-face encounters.
The intuitive feeling we have when speaking to someone cannot be fostered (in its entirety) in the ethereal concept of social virtual communications, and we base ourselves on either prior experience with x individual or with the given information. Nevertheless, we are presented with a wishful appearance of not only ourselves, in part or completely, as well as with others. The relationships managed through the channel of inter-networks in digital format allows for the real possibility to consider the validity of absolutely every facet of the individual we are interacting with. Questions such as identity theft and fantasy play are not so easily pulled off in the everyday, mundane face-to-face "real" world. So then, what is real? What are you really in these social networking sites? Is this really you? Can these questions be answered?
