DISQUS

FOJ: The Appeal of Facebook…Sharing Moments

  • Scott Chait · 1 month ago
    Naw, disgree. Isn't the entire point of a moment like a cool cloud formation or fall foliage to be there, "in the moment", to step back from the fast paced nitty gritty of our lives and simply enjoy the pace and beauty of nature without furisouly typing away on some (man-made) device? Nature may be out last refuge to throw the damn electronic leash off for one solitary second. I may turn to the person I'm with, but there's no way I'm posting to Facebook.
  • jer979 · 1 month ago
    Why does it have to be binary? Perhaps I saw the cloud formation and was "in the moment." Then, I said, "wow, this is special and I'd love to share it with my friends?"

    I was there. I appreciated the moment and was SO appreciative of it that I was inspired to get others to be involved...and perhaps, help them appreciate more of these moments themselves...and vice versa?
  • Scott Chait · 1 month ago
    Because there is a reflective, ponderous, private value to such experiences, a value IMHO, which can only be realized when you don't share it with the world. I just think many of us are getting to the point where we make so much of our lives an "open-to-the web-book" that the value of intimacy and privacy is being lost.
  • jer979 · 1 month ago
    There are plenty of things we don't, won't, or can't share with the world. And for those that we can, we enrich, rather detract our experiences as humans by realizing that there are others out there who can appreciate our perspectives and expand them beyond what we had originally envisioned.
  • Scott Chait · 1 month ago
    I concur and concede as I now need to share with the world (or at least my clients) my lawyering skills. Fun time over ;-)