Brave New World of Digital Intimacy
“This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives, like thousands of dots making a pointillist painting. This was never before possible, because in the real world, no friend would bother to call you up and detail the sandwiches she was eating. The ambient information becomes like “a type of E.S.P.,” as Haley described it to me, an invisible dimension floating over everyday life.”
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insuchaworld:plsj: “This is...paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each...
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What I really love about ‘knowing’ people on tumblr is that little spark I feel when I come across something on the...
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I feel I ‘know’ some of the people I follow on Tumblr quite well. Only because I’ve seen so much of their posts....
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