Our virtual world

30Jan10

We know we’re in the second decade of the millenium when the first thing we do every morning even before washing up is to check for updates on facebook and twitter. With much convenience such as mobile facebooking on the iPhone, doubled with push notifications, nobody denies we spend a significant amount of attention in the virtual world and don’t get me wrong; I loved it since it’s a way (sometimes the only way) we connect with friends and family we don’t usually meet and find out what’s up with them.

I have kept a strict policy of adding/approving friends who are really friends of mine but I just realized yesterday night that wasn’t even enough when something bad happened to me- almost. A fellow colleague took a picture while I wasn’t realizing and happily tagged it and I hate the way I looked in that paparazzi style image. And then it hit me in my head- Anything posted there is immediately notified for all eyes to see: My friends who knew I am gay and were okay with it, the not-so-okay friends, friends who doesn’t know, and of course, relatives and my parents are on facebook too! Suddenly, for the first time I felt self-defendless and furious.

I have little control over stuff I want people to see, actually.

While social applications like facebook and twitter helps us get involved in bits of somebody elses life, it has created problems even more severe than I have mentioned, by people who abuse its usage. I think the only way we can control is to narrow down the list of friends since we’ve got too used to it and it is quite impossible to just hit ‘delete account’ and shut the notebook for good.

Here’s a good video from HappySlip about Facebook. Very funny!

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