‘Social scientists have warned Zuck all along that the Facebook theory of interaction would make people angry and miserable’
“Since the earliest days of Facebook, social scientists have sent up warnings saying that the ability to maintain separate "contexts" (where you reveal different aspects of yourself to different people) was key to creating and maintaining meaningful relationships”
https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/facebook-is-sad.html
Comment on our radar: https://forum.ind.ie/t/social-scientists-have-warned-zuck-all-along/2021
Fortunately I have a linguistic anthropologist handy.
@gcupc Did I already tell you to read The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life? (Erving Goffman, 1959) And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Good_Place_(Oldenburg) is probably also relevant (not to be confused with the short story by Henry James)
@zwol Yeah, probably. I do need to read it.
@gcupc It's a quick read!
@zwol Really? That's surprising and encouraging.
@gcupc Well, it's quite short (170 to 250 pages depending on which printing you have) and I don't remember its being all full of turgid academese but I could just have a warped idea of what counts as turgid academese.
@indie Yes, this definitely sounds right on target to me. I use FB for *very* specific and limited reasons, which essentially translates that to being one separate context (my other contexts--and this is key b/c FB fails--being on OTHER systems).
I wonder whether any social media platform can really deliver on safe and separate contexts, though. There is too much motivation for any platform to start mining their data and therefore slicing any segregated context to ribbons.
LB: #Aardwolf plans. I want us to have some way of one user managing different contexts/personas (which are ActivityPub Actors). I don't want it to just be G+ circles, though, and I need to talk to a linguistic anthropologist about creation of identity.