[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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