{"id":22494,"date":"2008-10-08T17:47:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/it.wooster.edu.wooster.edu\/?p=599"},"modified":"2022-08-23T14:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T18:56:34","slug":"im-so-totally-digitally-close-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inside.wooster.edu\/technology\/im-so-totally-digitally-close-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m so Totally, Digitally Close to You"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New York Times recently published a\u00a0must read\u00a0article<\/a> about the \u201cBrave New World of Digital Intimacy\u201d. \u00a0Specifically it deals with short blog-like updates on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. \u00a0I must confess that I\u2019ve had a Facebook account for over three years (Twitter for about two) but it\u2019s only been in the last six months that I really started to use Facebook. \u00a0More and more of my former high school and college classmates have signed up and I\u2019ve enjoyed renewing old friendships. \u00a0My initial reaction to Twitter and the update status field of Facebook was very\u00a0skeptical. \u00a0Would people really care what I was doing? \u00a0Would I care what they were doing? \u00a0I didn\u2019t think so. \u00a0But my job is to experiment with new technologies so I decided to give it a try. \u00a0My experience was similar to the\u00a0phenomenon\u00a0described in the New York Times article:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u201dMerely looking at a stranger\u2019s Twitter or Facebook feed isn\u2019t interesting, because it seems like blather. Follow it for a day, though, and it begins to feel like a short story; follow it for a month, and it\u2019s a novel. \u201c\u00a0\u00a0 From one friend in Richmond VA I learned that he won a local radio station contest, ran a half-marathon, is more of a die-hard Red Sox fan than I ever remember, has incredible passion and unending dedication for acting, and has an amazing network of contacts and friends – far more than I could have ever imagined (414 friend and counting). \u00a0We rarely, if ever, email and chat. \u00a0He has a blog where he posts major events -but in the past few months (since he joined Facebook) I have rediscovered what makes him such a great guy. \u00a0Sometimes technology really is amazing.<\/p>\n

And how did I find out about this article? \u00a0It appeared as a news feed from another friend\u2019s Facebook page\u2026 \u00a0Thanks Sean!<\/p>\n

From Educause:
\nSeven Things you Should Know about Twitter
\n<\/a>Seven Things you should Know about Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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