Facebook" or the entangled , Society
In recent months, has been word of mouth a name: "Facebook." Facebook is
the name of a Web site on the Internet that serves as a social tool to
connect people (www.facebook.com). In this type of page is what you call
Social Network Sites (SRS).
Facebook serves to endless uses. It serves to connect the Web fellow
class of the College, which serves to connect old friends physically
separated by distance and the passing of life; serves to contact
prostitut @ s (say that the governor of the state of New York contacted
a prostitute through a BSS is called MySpace); serves to play, and, also
serves to organize a way of doing politics. Facebook, for example, was
channel-organization worldwide-from demonstrations against the FARC that
took place on February 4, 2008. Currently serves as a space for
organizing demonstrations against President Hugo Chavez to be held on
April 11, 2008. It also has spaces for the help and support of the
candidacy of Leopoldo Lopez and to contact people who "hate Mario Silva."
Call powerfully attention that the SRS serves as a host to an
overwhelming majority of networks right. Contundente, repeat. Draws
attention because there is nothing that prevents the leftists connect
and interact. But the participation of the left is, Facebook, rather
squalid. A valid explanation would be that on the social class of those
who have access to the Internet is the bourgeois. But economic status is
necessary, but not sufficient, to account for the vast majority of
presence on the right.
I believe that, beyond the economic sphere, there is a way of
socialization which is taking place mainly in social class more
tecnologizada, ie on the right. This is a networked society, or society
entangled. The metaphor of the network has been serving since several
decades ago to talk about society. However, it was not until our present
it is revealing to us with all their monstrous power.
In the network, the other appears not as a human being is an end in
itself, nor is a neighbor of the same community of God who aspires
"to-me" to the Salvation; much less a clothes with the same roots
community . Not. The other is primarily a "node". Node-which is
activated or deactivated-in the intertwining of myriad interconnections.
In the network, we are switches that turn on and shut down.
Very important is the popularity Facebook. The popular person is one
that achieves go becoming central node of the network. The hubs are
those with a greater number of interconnections that go off in
comparison with the majority. In other words, I become popular when many
other nodes are clicked on my profile. What is a profile? A profile is
my presentation at the SRS. In my profile put my personal information,
my tastes and preferences, my network of friends and, most importantly,
my photos. The most popular tend to be those that put pictures of
themselves very attractive mism @ s. Indeed, the vast majority of the
photographs of the popular border between what people very sensual and
the pornographic. They are also very popular actors and actresses in
film and television and media personalities such as Republican candidate
John McCain. Surely if Mario Silva affix his Facebook profile would be
tremendously important people. In other words, rapidly acapararÃa
million interconnections as a reminder, at least to his wife mother.
In Facebook there is a game that summarizes how social society
entangled. This is "Friends for Sale" or "Friends for Sale". "Friends
for Sale" is a game somewhat similar to a monopoly, except that, instead
of buying real estate, buying people (www.sellyourfriends.com). The
people who purchase the flames "pets". At this time there are about
700,000 people playing worldwide, as they say in the official website of
the game in Facebook. Unlike the game of monopoly, which attempt to
monopolize the real estate, "Friends for Sale" what is important is the
interconnectedness continuous buying and selling. This is not monopolize
pets contrary, it is that buying pets that can sell quickly and so you
gain more "dollars". Therefore you must try to acquire attractive pets.
If you buy pets unattractive, you keep some "dollars" represados without
any gain.
On the other hand, if you feel like mascot "dollars" for each
transaction in which you buy and sell. Therefore you must sell, and
therefore you should offer so attractive. Hence it is very, very
important that sensual place photos on your profile. Indeed, it matters
little whether the photo coincides with whom you are offline. The SRS
are full of what they call the "fakesters". These "imposters" are people
who put photos of other people-more attractive-in their profiles. The
truth is that in society tangled no matter who you are outside the
network but as your node is shown in it.
In "Friends for Sale" the important thing is to monopolize transactions,
namely the interconnections. The most popular pets are those who acquire
more value in the multiple transactions in which they are involved
through their attractiveness on the network. Is now understands how
important it is to have central node of the network interconnections? @
The more attractive, more people are connecting with your node to buy,
or at least to observarte.
I think right now in the SRS a very conducive to their way of political
organization because they reflect the dominant mode of socialization in
contemporary capitalism.
To be honest, I am not quite sure what is on the left trying to call
"new man". The truth is that I do not know. In fact, I believe that the
"new man" is more a question than an answer. What I do know, and we
know, is that the "new man" is not a "pet" of buying and selling. What I
do know, and we know, is that the human is not confined to a switch that
activates or deactivates a convenience. And I also know that the left
and we believe that the "popularity" to know people and not to society
entangled
Is now understands why the left is not,
You can not see, it could not have been, Facebook?
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