In Digital Vertigo, we see the current world we are living in surrounding digital media and the online social world. Everyone is connected and if before no one knew who you were, now everyone is exposed to millions of other people through the use of daily use technological devices such as laptops, cellphones, etc and also through a social network such as Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, and many others that help create a presence of each of us in the virtual and social world that is the internet. Being connected with others is proposed to help better ourselves and others. Yet, not everyone desires to be connected just like Andrew Keen told Hoffman Reid so what happens then? He was very skeptical about people not wanting to be part of the social networking occurring online because he believes that “that man is, by nature, a social animal”. The future will be a social media world and everyone will have to be part of it one way or another. Privacy will be a forgotten matter and all those thoughts that were personal and unique, can and will be exposed to the entire world just like it is currently available through Tweets and FB posts. I think our identities will be jeopardized and will be transformed in a manner that we ourselves will continue to reanalyze over and over who we truly are. We will lose a sense of privacy, sense of self, and expose ourselves in its entirety. Will this be for the better of our society or will it just continue to create more problems? We will have to wait and see.
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Before giving your prophecies about the future, which are interesting, you should properly introduce the author and the reading. You should link to the reading, and consider incorporating blockquotes and images as well, as this makes the post more inviting to read.
Interesting take on the reading. I find it interesting how you thing our identities will be jeopardized, however I don’t think we will truly lose our sense of self, so long as we are responsible with how we integrate social media into our lives. as to the question you pose, I think it will probably create even more problems due to the fact that when we first start using social media, we are very foolish about what we post and who can see it.