[NetBehaviour] The Unsociable, Radically-Individualist Soul of Social Media
Andreas Jacobs
ajaco at xs4all.nl
Fri May 29 11:55:08 CEST 2009
see also:
Towards a radical antisocial art
http://www.nictoglobe.com/new/articles/taraa.html
not exactly well formulated but nevertheless ...
A. Andreas
On May 29, 2009, at 12:36 AM, james morris wrote:
>
> from enterprise2blog.com
>
> I had a big insight today: the word “social” in the term “social
> media”
> represents the ultimate in misleading advertising, and is responsible
> for many failures and a lot of disenchantment, especially within the
> enterprise. The adjective attracts exactly the sort of people most
> likely to fail at doing anything valuable with the technology. The
> sort
> of extroverted, harmony-seeking, consensus-driven collectivists who
> think it is all about the group, cutting big-ego prima donnas down to
> size, and building Brave New Egalitarian Communities that enshrine
> social justice values. It also explains why thoroughly introverted,
> unsociable, egoistic and ornery individualists (I am one; among my
> nicknames in college was “hermit”) take to the medium like ducks to
> water.
>
> more:
>
> http://enterprise2blog.com/2009/02/the-unsociable-radically-
> individualist-soul-of-social-media/
>
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Andreas Jacobs
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