Comments on: Mass intimacy http://steflewandowski.com/2008/03/mass-intimacy/ Create something every day Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:25:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: marci alboher http://steflewandowski.com/2008/03/mass-intimacy/comment-page-1/#comment-10544 marci alboher Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:35:43 +0000 http://www.steflewandowski.com/?p=377#comment-10544 Stef, Saw your comment on my blog this morning and came to check out what you're doing here. I couldn't agree with you more about what all this communication and updating is doing to us. I'll look forward to reading more here. Ciao, Marci Stef,
Saw your comment on my blog this morning and came to check out what you’re doing here. I couldn’t agree with you more about what all this communication and updating is doing to us. I’ll look forward to reading more here.

Ciao,
Marci

]]> By: Stef Lewandowski http://steflewandowski.com/2008/03/mass-intimacy/comment-page-1/#comment-10536 Stef Lewandowski Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:16:57 +0000 http://www.steflewandowski.com/?p=377#comment-10536 Marci Alboher has an interesting article on this subject on Shifting Careers: "...we are living in a moment when all our tools of connection can both deepen our relationships and cheapen them". She points to the work of the <a href="http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www/techself/" rel="nofollow">MIT initiative on technology and self</a> Marci Alboher has an interesting article on this subject on Shifting Careers:

“…we are living in a moment when all our tools of connection can both deepen our relationships and cheapen them”.

She points to the work of the MIT initiative on technology and self

]]> By: links for 2008-03-23 « David Black http://steflewandowski.com/2008/03/mass-intimacy/comment-page-1/#comment-10467 links for 2008-03-23 « David Black Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:28:54 +0000 http://www.steflewandowski.com/?p=377#comment-10467 [...] Mass intimacy - Stef Lewandowski On Twitter and Microblogging: “It’s not heavy on intelligence but it’s high on immediacy and this concept of intimacy is scaled up when intimacy and immediacy are combined.” (tags: internet participatory journalism blogging microblogging twitter identity) [...] [...] Mass intimacy - Stef Lewandowski On Twitter and Microblogging: “It’s not heavy on intelligence but it’s high on immediacy and this concept of intimacy is scaled up when intimacy and immediacy are combined.” (tags: internet participatory journalism blogging microblogging twitter identity) [...]

]]> By: Antonio http://steflewandowski.com/2008/03/mass-intimacy/comment-page-1/#comment-10390 Antonio Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:36:54 +0000 http://www.steflewandowski.com/?p=377#comment-10390 I'm still feeling exactly the same with regards to information overload. Although I've only just installed it BlogRovR (http://www.blogrovr.com/) is proving useful as it displays posts from feeds that I'm subscribed to <b>but</b> only if it relates to the page I'm currently on. Otherwise I don't think there's anyway to stay connected to this always-on web community yet still be apart from it. I’m still feeling exactly the same with regards to information overload. Although I’ve only just installed it BlogRovR (http://www.blogrovr.com/) is proving useful as it displays posts from feeds that I’m subscribed to but only if it relates to the page I’m currently on.

Otherwise I don’t think there’s anyway to stay connected to this always-on web community yet still be apart from it.

]]> By: simon gray http://steflewandowski.com/2008/03/mass-intimacy/comment-page-1/#comment-10388 simon gray Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:44:37 +0000 http://www.steflewandowski.com/?p=377#comment-10388 i was a late adopter to facebook - it took a friend leaving her job & the city in which she worked to persuade me to be bothered with it. then when as a refusnik i finally joined i threw myself into it body & soul, & was a naysayer to those radio 4 reports last autumn on how the interest had peaked. & then in the last month or so, i realised how infrequently i'd ended up updating my facebook status - indeed, last monday i found myself updating it to say 'simon is wondering how many people are starting to lose interest in facebook'. where i started off looking at it once an hour, then i went to once a day, then i got bored with all the scrabulous games i was playing, & now i just about manage a once a week update. we need a new toy to play with. i was a late adopter to facebook - it took a friend leaving her job & the city in which she worked to persuade me to be bothered with it. then when as a refusnik i finally joined i threw myself into it body & soul, & was a naysayer to those radio 4 reports last autumn on how the interest had peaked.

& then in the last month or so, i realised how infrequently i’d ended up updating my facebook status - indeed, last monday i found myself updating it to say ’simon is wondering how many people are starting to lose interest in facebook’.

where i started off looking at it once an hour, then i went to once a day, then i got bored with all the scrabulous games i was playing, & now i just about manage a once a week update.

we need a new toy to play with.

]]> By: Charlotte Carey http://steflewandowski.com/2008/03/mass-intimacy/comment-page-1/#comment-10384 Charlotte Carey Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:21:15 +0000 http://www.steflewandowski.com/?p=377#comment-10384 Interesting thing about moving away from Facebook and sticking with Linkedin, I was actually thinking the exact same thing earlier - a bit the 'Hare and the tortoise'. While I was away from my constant connectiveity for 3 weeks I kind of broke my FB/soical networking habit. And kind of found, on my return, the seeming need to provide a running commentary of ones life a bit bizzarre and somewhat cliquey (maybe me just feeling out of the loop). I think Neil is right it is probelmatic trying to do multiple things at once and not give stuff your full attention, however I sometiems feel I make a bunch of different connections in my thinking working this way - or at least put off the big jobs. I recommend a total news/online/mobile/TV fast for a couple of days - really helps to get some perspective and a break from the overload. Interesting thing about moving away from Facebook and sticking with Linkedin, I was actually thinking the exact same thing earlier - a bit the ‘Hare and the tortoise’.

While I was away from my constant connectiveity for 3 weeks I kind of broke my FB/soical networking habit. And kind of found, on my return, the seeming need to provide a running commentary of ones life a bit bizzarre and somewhat cliquey (maybe me just feeling out of the loop).

I think Neil is right it is probelmatic trying to do multiple things at once and not give stuff your full attention, however I sometiems feel I make a bunch of different connections in my thinking working this way - or at least put off the big jobs.

I recommend a total news/online/mobile/TV fast for a couple of days - really helps to get some perspective and a break from the overload.

]]> By: Neil Cocker http://steflewandowski.com/2008/03/mass-intimacy/comment-page-1/#comment-10379 Neil Cocker Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:47:52 +0000 http://www.steflewandowski.com/?p=377#comment-10379 I definitely agree with you, Stef. I think it's time for us to reassess our use of social media. We've all been so excited by social networking that most of us have thrown ourselves into it without really thinking. I blogged about the very same thing on neilcocker.co.uk just a few days ago. I'm finding myself doing stuff in more and more fragmented ways (spend 30 seconds on email, 30 seconds on Facebook, 30 seconds writing a document, 30 seconds planning a new network event, and then back to email and so on). We never sit down and do one thing for an hour any more and I'm not sure it's healthy. Our ancestors' days were split into about 4 parts (eat, sleep, plough, hunt). Ours are split into 400 or 4000 parts. And it can't be good for us. I for one am trying to simplify.... I definitely agree with you, Stef. I think it’s time for us to reassess our use of social media. We’ve all been so excited by social networking that most of us have thrown ourselves into it without really thinking. I blogged about the very same thing on neilcocker.co.uk just a few days ago. I’m finding myself doing stuff in more and more fragmented ways (spend 30 seconds on email, 30 seconds on Facebook, 30 seconds writing a document, 30 seconds planning a new network event, and then back to email and so on). We never sit down and do one thing for an hour any more and I’m not sure it’s healthy. Our ancestors’ days were split into about 4 parts (eat, sleep, plough, hunt). Ours are split into 400 or 4000 parts. And it can’t be good for us.

I for one am trying to simplify….

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