I can’t stop thinking about this movie. It’s the sharing that sometimes creeps me out. The ‘onlineness’ of my life. That movie got me thinking about privacy and openness. I obviously don’t mind being open and sharing about my life and thought to myself, ‘where do I draw the line?’ Where do you draw the line? Is there even a line? Do I care about a line?
I leave out certain things from you, the internet, my friends, things like sex, dating, my family, pretty much any problems I have as well as feelings of sadness/anger. Would I be more real if I shared all that? Am I less real because I don’t?
To a bunch of people, I’m a girl from the internet, possibly someone they (you) feel connected to but have never met. On the other hand, there’s many people I’ve met via Twitter who know me, but don’t really know me at all.
It boggles my mind when I think about our world sometimes. Everyone is so connected. I feed on connections with people. I need them. I’m sitting at my desk as I write this with a external monitor for my netbook (two screens going) while my iPad is beside me (anbother screen) and my phone beside that (four screens). All have twitter running and multilple email accounts and the second I hear a sound from one of them my attention is captured.
Maybe that’s it right there, my attention is captured by the internet, by you. I don’t really know how I feel about the future of the internet but I like it. Even if it makes me feel funny sometimes.
It’s a crazy world we live in. We live in public.
This is what I did last night… I took a break from work for an hour to check out Nat & Marie on ustream then stream live myself on twitcam while my friend Jason streamed from his house. Jason and I chatted with people via twitter and watched each other (twitter-skype?).
To me, was the funniest thing ever. I just watched it again and it was funny.
I really like being on camera.
he started it, so then i started it too:
I posted it before but maybe you didn’t watch it, here’s the trailer for We Live In Public. This very blog post enticed reader @the_jmoney to blog his thoughts about the same topic. Check out his post ‘overshare or unique TV’.
I had a Livejournal from 21 to 24 that left very little to the imagination about my life. I wrote about everything, and had a webcam going in my bedroom 24/7. At the time it felt great to be so open about everything, not having to hide, and it did feel like the readers knew more about the real me then say my family or anyone who didn’t read it. Having people come up to you in bars and know your life was kind of fun too.
But it eventually became a huge drama in my life and I had to scale back big time, (also LJ wasn’t cool anymore). So now I have a pretty tame twitter presence, and only more recently have pushed the line towards being more open via podcasts. Which I can already see being a source of drama in the future lol.
That’s interesting to learn about you. Fascinating really. I often wonder what it would be like to have a camera on all the time. Sometimes I dream about it.
I got used to the bedroom cam pretty quickly. Just have to remember to throw a shirt over it if you don’t want someone to see something.
Yo Casie, was it your letter published in today’s NOW? The awesome girl who hasn’t had a boyfriend in six years?
I was doing the perma live-cam thing for a little while too back in 2005-2006… open live webcam chats almost every day. It`s so much fun, but can get exhausting and scary and like, picard said, dramatic. I had to kill my old online presence and scrub the internet hard just to feel safe again… flew to close to the sun, hahaha.
I’ve had my blog since 2004 and had an online ‘life’ since 1996 (Powwow anyone?). I’ve made friends online that I’ve never had the chance to meet in person, like a pen pal type relationship. However, I’ve also seen people become addicted, literally, to the need for constant information, attention, and feeling ‘cut off from the world’ even though they are hanging out in real life with friends and family. To me, people that can’t disconnect have a problem and we are raising a whole generation of people that don’t know where to draw the line, for their and their friends’/families’ sake, if they even know there is a line!?!
The internet is the most amazing thing ever invented by humans, but it is still just a tool to add to your life, it is not a substitute for life.
I’ve created a monster!!! 😉
You have!
Check out http://weekendpictures.ca for short videos about user-generated content and privacy. Featured interview subjects include Raymi the Minx, Sass/Zucket, danah boyd, Steve Mann, Greg Elmer, Jonathan Zittrain and Michael Geist.
Nope wasn’t me. I’ve had a few in that time period!!
“the internet makes me feel lonely” and other realizations. 12 May. Hey all. I have been without the internet for a couple of weeks now, and it’s not as painful as I may have expected. Actually, I feel pretty great for the most part. …. Fun quotes from kids I work with: (a 7 year old when asked what he did for mother’s day): Well, I don’t know how to say this in public, but I gave my mom a big big big long long long long good SMOOOCH! and it took all day! …