Minimum Viable Self
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Minimum Viable Self
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#2This inspired me to create a moment of silence for anyone who follows me on twitter.
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#3No western nation is building homes at an appropriate place, many downstream consequences.
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#4The term “meatspace” has always bothered me.
It’s “real life.” The internet is the illusion.
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#5No western nation is building homes at an appropriate place, many downstream consequences.
Did you by chance intend to post this comment in response to a different article?
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#6The term “meatspace” has always bothered me. It’s “real life.” The internet is the illusion.
It does a good job of distinguishing “reality” from “virtuality”. The Philip K Dick reference to “reality being something that exists when you stop believing in it” is better but a lot more verbose.
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#7I appreciate the point being made from the outside. I have no social media persona (a decade-old defunct Facebook account might be it, plus HN which doesn't feel social in the same sense), yet I don't feel that I'm homeless in the virtual space. I simply don't inhabit it, and I don't feel that I'm missing out.
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#9I appreciate the point being made from the outside. I have no social media persona (a decade-old defunct Facebook account might be it, plus HN which doesn't feel social in the same sense), yet I don't feel that I'm homeless in the virtual space. I simply don't inhabit it, and I don't feel that I'm missing out.
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#10I know very few people who want attention from strangers when they go out in public. Most of us want to be left alone while we go about our business. Online provides a forum for people to get the sort of attention we might like. "Look what I can do!" or "Look at me!" Still, one of my gripes about social media is that there are so many people who lurk. The lurkers are there to look at people attempting to get attention. The attention seekers are acting. They are on a stage. Nobody is confusing the act for the real person except the young and naive. The lurkers are the audience. Lurkers don't contribute anything (most won't hit the like button, much less comment, even if later the tell me "I loved your post"). The quiet ones are not "homeless."
Burning Man attempts to solve this with the no spectators rule:
“‘No Spectators’ is a long-standing saying on Playa. You are encouraged to fully participate. It’s all about being there, being fully present, and not just observing. Two of the ten principles of Burning Man are radical participation and radical inclusivity, meaning that there are no outsiders. Everyone is part of the experience.”
– Nora Atkinson, The Fleur and Charles Bresler Curator-in-Charge, Renwick Gallery
Again, nobody is confusing the Burning Man persona with who they are back at the office after the event is over. People try things out, take mind altering drugs. Identity is fluid. Social media isn't bad because it is fake. Social media is good because it is fake.
"...we tend to see other people’s lives as works of art." Sometimes, but most people aren't that good at performance.