Can you imagine actually hanging out at a physical place called Asian Avenue? I shudder to think.
I've had a few conversations recently about social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter et al. It definitely seems that within the last two months, Twitter has absolutely exploded.
My question might be whether someone's internet promiscuity is actually proportional to that individual's real-life social activity?
Is a social networking butterfly (somebody with, say over 800 friends on Facebook) by definition also a social butterfly in real life? I suppose the more pertinent question however might rather be whether exceptions are possible.
What is the correlation between real personality and one's online presence?
Technological inclination surely has a role, but how is that connected to one's self-awareness and desire to blog, tweet or otherwise make your life more transparent to those around you (or at least, appear more transparent)? Can a personality profile be created for your online persona, and are there concrete connections to reality?
In my most rudimentary of observations, I think that people who embrace social networking openly are, generally, not necessarily more extroverted, but by-and-large more willing to make new connections.
In other words, someone who tweets constantly would probably be easier to become actual friends with than someone who doesn't have a Facebook account because they are think it's cool to be ironic.
Of course, this is even more convoluted because I think there are also plenty of cases where people are extremely promiscuous online because they are socially awkward in real life. So how does one account for that faction? Hmm...
It's all very curious. Academic studies haven't seemed to really start analyzing this relationship yet and how one affects the other, but I can honestly see the future of our communications being completely integrated into social media as "the new medium" of choice... if it isn't already, that is.
It's only a matter of time.
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Sure makes long-distance relationships more feasible too. My cousin and his wife see each other via skype almost every day. hahaha.
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my aunty and uncle (in HK) also talk to each other everyday via skype. i use facebook to share and look at ppls photos. I refuse to use twitter though. I'm pretty sure Gord signed me up so he's have more friends on his twitter page hahaha. I swear twitter only got so big cuz of obama sure celebrities too but i didnt hear about it until obama joined. Just like the Zune player and Portuguese Water Dogs. He is the ultimate endorsor i hope he gets royalties.
Obama does not use a Zune!
The 9/11 terrorists did not come from Canada!
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