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Blog Entries by Claire Gordon from 11/2010

Am I Better Than Facebook?

| Posted 11.09.2010 | Technology
Read More: Digital Immigrants, Social Networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Weak Ties, Facebook, Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books, Suburbia, Software, Revolutions, Facebook Friends, Minimalism, Eliminating Desire, Digital Natives, Cocktail Party, Myspace, Race, Dana Boyd, Social Inequality, Class, Technology News

Facebook me is better than actual me. Smarter, wittier, funner, prettier. But does Facebook, as a platform, reduce the richness of my personhood? Absolutely.

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Be Kind, Fast Forward

| Posted 11.12.2010 | Technology
Read More: Retro, Nostalgia, Nineties Retro, Nineties Television, Video, Nineties Movies, Nineties Nostalgia, Retro Technology, Retro Junk, Technology News

Nostalgia is not a reason to resist technology. It's a feeling with an imaginary object: a simpler time that wasn't really simpler, family bliss that wasn't really blissful, community that was really just as frayed as now.

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