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f uck myspace
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| Orpheus Is Dead |
| quote: | Originally posted by igottaknow
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| jdat |
I just posted a fun bulletin:
Creating a Self, Online
MySpace profiles represent teenagers' online selves not so much an extension of who they are but who they see themselves to be at the moment, expressed in comments, photos, and music (Figure 2.1).
Figure 2.1. The MySpace profiles of 17-year-old "Cameron."
"With MySpace, you can get more creative about who you are," says Lisa, an 18-year-old MySpace user in California.
"When you're a teenager, that's what you're trying to do."
Part of what forms those online selves, in addition to profiles, are friends' photos and comments that appear on the
same page. The combination of all these elements, which is very much a group activity, presents a self defined in
relation to others (Figure 2.2).
Figure 2.2. Friends' comments on Cameron's page.
A lot of thought often goes into these profiles, in what looks to adults like terse comments and crazy photos. This
haphazardness is a natural byproduct of teens' making up who they are as they go along.
Although it may look aimless and superficial, it's actually very productive, says Danah Boyd, a pioneering social-networks researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. MySpace is "not the waste of time adults think it is. What's happening in it is what academics call informal learning," Boyd says.
Hanging out has a lot of social value, adds Boyd. "It's where you learn social norms, rules, how to interact with others, narrative [writing a blog], personal and group history, and media literacy."
David Huffaker, a researcher of online social behavior at Northwestern University, agrees. "These activities are important for identity exploration, which is one of the principal tasks of adolescence," Huffaker he wrote in an academic paper, "Teen Blogs Exposed: The Private Lives of Teens Made Public" which he presented at the American
Association for the Advancement of Science in February 2006.
Detective Frank Dannahey, a 15-year veteran Youth Division police officer in Rocky Hill, Connecticut, has worked and consulted on a lot of social-networking cases. He takes a pragmatic approach to MySpace, based on his conversations with teens: "For the most part, these [MySpace users] are just average, everyday, good kids... and this is part of their social life." |
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| Enigmatic XTC |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orpheus Is Dead
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| Slylee |
| quote: | Originally posted by Orpheus Is Dead
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is he hot? i'll him!
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| iammesol |
| It has been being gh3y lately... |
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| Orpheus Is Dead |
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
is he hot? i'll him!
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dunno... ask tom
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people on myspace crack me up. i love when i read someone's profile and it's all about how well in life their doing bla bla bla.
my friend and i were talking about this last night. she has a "friend" that she knows through someone else and to look at her page she's on top of the world...
she's completely in love with her husband, has a beautiful family, she's a great mom...bla bla bla
Reality check:
she accidentally got knocked up by her drug dealer and so they got married. they have a collection of bongs in their baby's room and her husband recently got busted on a violation...
yet she's "doing really well for someone her age"
seriously...who do people think they are fooling? it's hilarious... |
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| Orpheus Is Dead |
| quote: | Originally posted by iammesol
It has been being gh3y lately... |
when u see glorified walking bags of amino acid who could barely check their hotmail using it and showing off and toying it about it kinda annoys....
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Floorfiller
people on myspace crack me up. i love when i read someone's profile and it's all about how well in life their doing bla bla bla.
my friend and i were talking about this last night. she has a "friend" that she knows through someone else and to look at her page she's on top of the world...
she's completely in love with her husband, has a beautiful family, she's a great mom...bla bla bla
Reality check:
she accidentally got knocked up by her drug dealer and so they got married. they have a collection of bongs in their baby's room and her husband recently got busted on a violation...
yet she's "doing really well for someone her age"
seriously...who do people think they are fooling? it's hilarious... |
my "About me:" section as of today consists of this:
  
  
  
I think it was blank before :haha: |
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