No Secrets - The Transparent Generation
Posted in Podcasts on February 20th, 2007
MySpace, FaceBook, LiveJournal, Xanga, and every other version of social networking has changed the younger generation in a way that hasn’t been seen since Rock & Roll split parents from their kids in the 50’s and 60’s.  Susie and Barb refer to New York Magazine’s cover story by Emily Nussbaum on the death of privacy that is embraced by the young and feared by some of the old. Will you/they some day regret laying it all out for the world to see? Let us know what you think.
Living Online by Sub-Urban Addiction from Slightly Crazed - Gregg’s
Note: This band writes a song called “Living Online” and they don’t
even have a web site.
Susie Watson says:
Here is a great article that is relevant to this podcast - check it out! http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-daum17feb17,1,5078750.column
February 20th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Misty says:
FYI. Tom is the founder of Myspace. He is automatically everyone’s friend.
I completely agree that opening line from the New Yorker? magazine. The kids these days. And I’m only 24, and I see it. It makes me wonder that when we’ve or they’ve ventured this out, showing themselves, pictures, poems, friends, the extreme, where is it we or they will go next? How much further can the envelope be pushed?
The lies part. I’m not sure that is so prevalent, well at least with people of my age groups. I’d say this maybe true for the middle school or high schoolers. But I think all too often omission is prevalent. Not telling certain facts seems to be the trend.
The majority of my “myspace friends” are people I know in real life. The other half are musicians or actors. But I agree there is a lot of fluff, and make believe. I think its all up to the user how they use myspace or the other programs.
Myspace beats out all of the others is because of the Music/Film/Books sections. Now they have added Jobs, Classifieds, and other areas. Plus they have all the extra’s you can personalize it, have pictures, video’s, music. Also part of your Classmates discussion the other cool thing with Myspace is you can search your school to see classmates. I have found so many that I would not have found otherwise. The other nice part is all this is free.
The thing with regretting what is put up on myspace is you can take it down. You can remove blogs, and alter them. I think its just like a diary, but virtual, and its up to the individuals what they want people to see, or not see. I like that myspace offers different settings, such as Private profiles, so only friends can see your stuff, or you can set blogs to private so only certain friends can read it.
The time myspace, and these are taking time from are the video games, the tv programs, time with family, playing out doors, being in school extra curricular time.
February 20th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Mike C says:
Oh — you’ve opened a huge can of worms here. The reality is that this on-line social networking is very powerful so like it or not, it’s probably here to stay. MySpace: I love what I can do with the friends I get and the power it has but I absolutely hate the interface — it just plain sux. I do think we’ll see more models like this, though, in the future.
As always, nice job ladies.
February 21st, 2007 at 3:30 am
Bernadette in Australia says:
Great show. I plan to be the last human on earth without a MySpace page. I generally adore technology and web 2.0 but I cannot see the point of getting a whole bunch of e-friends…I struggle to make time for my real-world friends let alone a bunch of people I’ve never met and in all likelihood never will.
February 24th, 2007 at 5:20 am