Friday, October 5, 2012

The Truth about Technology.
While doing my Facebook Assignment, I realized something about myself. I am exactly what Sherry Turkle talks about in her book. I am a cyborg in the way she describes it. I have to be a different person online than I am in everyday life because so many people can access what they see and once you put something up on the internet. it is ALWAYS there. there's no getting it offline. So I have to watch everything I say because if i say one wrong thing, it may cause an uproar. When I was 15 I was listening to one of my favorite songs (not good enough for the truth or cliche by escape the fate) and i posted the first line to the chorus as my status "sitting in this room playing russian roulette" about 3 minutes later my mother busted in my door to find me sitting on my bed listening to music and doing my homework. This caused a problem with my stepdad's work  because he's a minister and people were afraid he wasn't "raising me correctly" which I'll be completely honest I thought was bullshit. So from then on I was kept on a tight leash of what I was and wasn't allowed to put online. So I truly am not the person who I am in reality on Facebook. Not by choice. But by the fact i have been censored for so long because of my Mark's work.

1 comment:

  1. I'm not sure that classifies you as a cyborg, it just means that your facebook is very clean. There is nothing wrong with that. It is probably better that way because one day if your employer background checks your facebook, it will be completely, 100% presentable.

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