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Re: The Appeal of Facebook…Sharing Moments

scottchait — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:54:21 -0000

I concur and concede as I now need to share with the world (or at least my clients) my lawyering skills. Fun time over ;-)

Re: The Appeal of Facebook…Sharing Moments

jer979 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:51:29 -0000

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.

Re: The Appeal of Facebook…Sharing Moments

scottchait — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:28:35 -0000

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.

Re: The Appeal of Facebook…Sharing Moments

jer979 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:52:20 -0000

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?

Re: The Appeal of Facebook…Sharing Moments

scottchait — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:41:28 -0000

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.