Can our personal identity, reputation and status really be transacted? And with our lives being played out online and our complex tastes being reduced to thumbs up/thumbs down binaries, are we seeing our personalities changing as a result?
Joining podcast host Jack Roberts to discuss these questions are fellow futurehumanista Ben Beaumont-Thomas; social networking CEO Alex Halliday, who runs the ‘make your own social network’ site SocialGo; and the London Business School’s Xi Zou, who is conducting pioneering research into human behaviour within social networks.
They discuss the commercial opportunities, status anxieties and behavioural patterns that are redefining the rapidly evolving world of interactive social networks.
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Notes:
I think the interesting issue in this podcast was how the way we express our identities is being dictated by the social networking sights we use.
"Facebook is maneuvering its users into becoming less purely independent humans interacting with one another and actually almost turning each of us who use that service into a brand; we have to define ourselves by our likes and the things we ally ourselves to.”
complexity gets boiled down- eg. “its complicated”
group norms change- the norms that change on platforms change what is acceptable
are we using the tools in the best way
-our windows to the world around us has changed from our eyes to our phones
-are we defined more accurately as we use social networking sights more or does part of us get lost in the process?
- worried about kids and identities
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