Internet has evolved in ways that seemed to be impossible to predict back in the late 90s ~ early 00s. It used to be a virtual plaza where outcasts, students and professors would gather and share information in various forums and plain looking html pages.
Back then, using the Internet and having an online presence was lame, weird, eccentric, but as Internet went mainstream in mid late 00's and people started to use it, it wasn't as weird or different. Sure, some people still held back agains the Internet, but a good portion actively used it, at least for reading the news, posting on facebook and studying.
Jump into the 2010s and the way people have used the Internet has evolved in ways that seemed impossible to predict. Now we use the Internet for almost everything you can think of, even to form parasocial relationships where a person spends hours listening to another and developing friendship feels for people who don't even know the viewer exists except for a string of characters.
Now, here's the deal, as the world becomes hyper virtualized and every piece of data can be put on the Internet, we are reaching to a critical moment when there is going to be no kind of privacy whatsoever and you will barely be able to hide personal information due to a reason: peer pressure.
You will see in every social media people sharing photos of their lives: travelling, marrying, etc. It used to be pretty common in the 00s and it still is, BUT, now people are sharing many pieces of data that are very personal to them (body count, if they broke up with their bf/gf, etc..). It's getting so bad that not having a social media account is seen as WEIRD. If you don't have a social media account you are seen as a fucking weird guy, there must be something wrong with you if you don't have it.
It didn't use to be like this, though, the contacts list of social media was reserved for people you already knew like friends and family, and when you received a request from someone you didn't know, you started to question it and wanted to know who this stranger was. But as people overshare, more and more bonds are formed online, and people invite into their lives literal strangers whom they have no shit idea who they are, just to be the one who has more followers, friends, etc.
It's a competition of who can be the most something: handsome, controversial, brave, etc. And it was in this moment when the average man was done for, now you can't hide and pretend your life is great because if they look for your name, they will see you have 30 friends in facebook and only your mom congratulated you on your birthday. And if you don't have any kind of social media whatsoever, well, we already went over it, you fucking asocial psychopath.
The winners of this revolution are those who are able to create meaningful and worthy products using digital programs. If you are a fucking asocial creative potato who would've had it over before the Internet, it gave you a chance to exploit your skills to fend for yourself.
This used to be a place where having an identity was for losers, now, if you don't have an identity here, you are a loser. And it happened in less thant 20 years.
Back then, using the Internet and having an online presence was lame, weird, eccentric, but as Internet went mainstream in mid late 00's and people started to use it, it wasn't as weird or different. Sure, some people still held back agains the Internet, but a good portion actively used it, at least for reading the news, posting on facebook and studying.
Jump into the 2010s and the way people have used the Internet has evolved in ways that seemed impossible to predict. Now we use the Internet for almost everything you can think of, even to form parasocial relationships where a person spends hours listening to another and developing friendship feels for people who don't even know the viewer exists except for a string of characters.
Now, here's the deal, as the world becomes hyper virtualized and every piece of data can be put on the Internet, we are reaching to a critical moment when there is going to be no kind of privacy whatsoever and you will barely be able to hide personal information due to a reason: peer pressure.
You will see in every social media people sharing photos of their lives: travelling, marrying, etc. It used to be pretty common in the 00s and it still is, BUT, now people are sharing many pieces of data that are very personal to them (body count, if they broke up with their bf/gf, etc..). It's getting so bad that not having a social media account is seen as WEIRD. If you don't have a social media account you are seen as a fucking weird guy, there must be something wrong with you if you don't have it.
It didn't use to be like this, though, the contacts list of social media was reserved for people you already knew like friends and family, and when you received a request from someone you didn't know, you started to question it and wanted to know who this stranger was. But as people overshare, more and more bonds are formed online, and people invite into their lives literal strangers whom they have no shit idea who they are, just to be the one who has more followers, friends, etc.
It's a competition of who can be the most something: handsome, controversial, brave, etc. And it was in this moment when the average man was done for, now you can't hide and pretend your life is great because if they look for your name, they will see you have 30 friends in facebook and only your mom congratulated you on your birthday. And if you don't have any kind of social media whatsoever, well, we already went over it, you fucking asocial psychopath.
The winners of this revolution are those who are able to create meaningful and worthy products using digital programs. If you are a fucking asocial creative potato who would've had it over before the Internet, it gave you a chance to exploit your skills to fend for yourself.
This used to be a place where having an identity was for losers, now, if you don't have an identity here, you are a loser. And it happened in less thant 20 years.
