Maybe that's the real danger, if there is a "danger," of social networking and other forms of de-personalized instantaneous communication. You get to where you need it to validate your existence. To remind you you're alive.
Check and check and check. Someone tell me I'm important and special and not alone.
Doubtful that most people consider it this way. Perhaps it isn't. Perhaps it's just me.
You too?
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Accusing someone who is doing creative work and seeking a response of being needy is kind of an empty label.
"You just want attention."
"Duh."
I've had that criticism leveled at me, but I think that's just the other half of being an artist.
You get a certain amount of gratification out of just doing the work, and for some people, that's enough.
But then you get the itch to "affect people."
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But you're not even talking about that, so, defensiveness aside, yea. It does seem like I'm sometimes just firing something off to say, "I'm still here, y'all. This town hasn't swallowed me yet."
Truth. Always try to find the in-between of shameless self-promotion and being proud of that which you've created. Difference I think being self-awareness and an ability to not take yourself too seriously.
The post was me talking to myself, like most every other post.
And try Black Moth Super Rainbow for electronica sounding like Tobacco. Tobacco is an offshoot of BMSR from what I understand.
I tried to write a paper on this using readings from Emile Durkheim. I struggle to figure out how I exactly feel about social networks. On some levels, I feel like they remove us from the collective group making everything depersonalized. We like people's statuses, get mentions from them, but we are not really on a personal level.
But at the same time, I really enjoy them. I get to hear lots of funny jokes from friends, share factual and entertaining links, create events so we can all be together for something that can all unify us or maybe even be for a good cause. I've even heard stories from where people have found some of their best friends or partners that started through communication in these networks.
And yes, I agree. I believe that we as society do demand for the attention. But with social networks or without them, It's probably going to happen at some level
I am glad these things didn't exist though when I was growing up. When hearing that my younger cousins who are 9 and 10 have facebook and gives me a weird feeling. Maybe I'm being that guy, but I feel generations that are growing up with a big access to high speed internet and whatnot will create a shift somehow in how we interact with each other.
www.thepoke.co.uk/2011/05/17/what-kind-of-facebook-poster-are-you/
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