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Getting a Word in Edgewise

Getting a Word in Edgewise. Paraphrase, Summary, and Quote: A conversation with Christine Rosen. Write for four minutes. . . . If you’re a Facebook or MySpace user, what kind of “portrait” do you think you’ve tried to paint of yourself on your site?

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Getting a Word in Edgewise

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  1. Getting a Word in Edgewise Paraphrase, Summary, and Quote: A conversation with Christine Rosen

  2. Write for four minutes. . . • If you’re a Facebook or MySpace user, what kind of “portrait” do you think you’ve tried to paint of yourself on your site? • If you’ve never used a social networking site online, what do you think of the idea that Facebook or MySpace are “great places to connect with people and make friends? • Tell a story of one of your experiences on one of these sites.

  3. There are some things. . . • Today’s online social networks are congeries of mostly weak ties—no one who lists thousands of “friends” on MySpace thinks of those people in the same way as he does his flesh-and-blood acquaintances, for example. It is surely no coincidence, then, that the activities social networking site promote are precisely the ones weak ties foster, like rumor-mongering, gossip, finding people, and tracking the ever-shifting movements of popular culture and fad. If this is our small world, it is one that gives its greatest attention to small things.

  4. Okay, what about this? • In the offline world, communities typically are responsible for enforcing norms of privacy and general etiquette. In the online world, which is unfettered by the boundaries of real-world communities, new etiquette challenges abound. For example, what do you with a “friend” who posts inappropriate comments on your Wall? What recourse do you have if someone posts an embarrassing picture of you on his MySpace page? What happens when a friend breaks up with someone—do you defriend the ex? If someone “friends” you and you don’t accept the overture, how serious a rejection is it? Some of these scenarios can be resolved with split-second snap judgments; others can provoke days of agonizing.

  5. One more thing. . . • The implications of the narcissistic and exhibitionistic tendencies of social networkers also cry out for further consideration. There are opportunity costs when we spend so much time carefully grooming ourselves online. Given how much time we already devote to entertaining ourselves with technology, it is at least worth asking if the time we spend on social networking sites is well spent. In investing so much energy into improving how we present ourselves online, are we missing chances to genuinely improve ourselves?

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