RESPONSE

Do you find meaningful differences between “liking” another person’s meme or photo on Instagram and the kinds of things Scoble does? Why or why not?
Scoble tries to make understanding social media in the way that it could be similar to a chemists way of life. He tries to say that every post we would make builds in weight across the internet.The more weight you would have the more information there would be about you, the person posting. This would then give an easier way of understanding you. There is a strong difference, in my opinion, about how he describes this. The children whom are growing up with social media are constantly having their minds changed. Lets say there is a 12 year old who has a Twitter. When they would make a post it would change as the days go by. Now that 12 year old, has grown up and over time their opinions have changed too. What I mean by this is that, what that child had liked when they were 12 shouldn’t judge how they are now. Yes, It makes them who they are when they grow up, but it shouldn’t be looked at the way that what they have liked at 12 is the same personality they have now. Just because they like the photo, or tweet, should not depict their personality. Their “Judgement and taste of knowledge” in this case should be seen as mainly a way of saying I acknowledge what you’re doing, by giving you this “LIKE” I am recognizing that you are doing this, and I am enabling my wish to see more (Rheingold, 127).

What kinds of digital curation are you involved in?
I am involved in Instagram, and twitter at some points. I do not like to get too personal on my social media, if it were to stay on the internet, well, it will be there forever. For Instagram, I have three accounts of sorts, I have my Dog’s Instagram account where “she” (its actually me) will mainly like her followers post, regardless what is the content. I have my personal account where I do commenting, liking, and sharing. Lastly, I have my school account where I post activities that I do for classes on, Its PG. Then For Twitter, when it was more popular, I was an avid poster, Now I mainly read the comments, follow up on my politics, and see some Tesla action. I am, what Rheingold says ” happy to like other people’s creations” (p. 127).

DISCUSSION

chloek –

I agree with the first part – I noticed Scoble seemed like that too, mechanical and robotic rather than for public entertainment. The part I’m unsure about is that “children are constantly changing their minds.” What context is this in? It seems like a generalization but maybe I misunderstand this. I do however definitely agree with the idea that social media is permanent, leaves little room for personal growth (like profile timelines), and boundaries are often blurry. I share a bit of frustration with that bit.

As for the second part – I confess that sometimes I forget those other than my friends, family, or acquaintances can see whatever I do on social media. Whenever this is brought to my attention or someone jumps to the wrong conclusion, I often end up having to edit or delete the post because it’s not what I meant and someone else usually gets the wrong idea. Personally I do not interact with anyone on social media unless I am on friendly terms with them in person either through work, class, or extracurricular sports/clubs… I’m guessing that isn’t typically the standard anymore

 

OTHER/REPLY

What I mean by children are constantly changing is that when I was 12 I was all about one thing and now that I am older I ask myself why was I like this. I’ll give an Example, FRED. To who ever remembers that. When I would watch FRED videos I would post on my twitter things like “OMG, HE’S SO FUNNY. LOL. xD xD”. Even just writing this I cringed and said, why did I ever do that. Children as they grow up go threw all types of different stages in life. Compared to what kids like when they are younger to what they like now there is a notable difference, making their minds constantly changing