Google , Facebook and Online Reality - Virginia Heffernan
Heffernan thinks Google+ has all the attractiveness of a weekend at a dude ranch: empty and sort of fake. And she ends up suggesting that Facebook has changed the meaning of ‘real’ — as in real friends — and we are complicit. Somehow we went along with the trickery of web pages becoming social contexts, even though we are just staring at computer screens.
This straddle might make for good page views, but I don’t think it adds much to the discussion, and her implied ambivalence is intended to seem reasonable, but it rings hollow to me, as if she feels that she should be ambivalent, but instead she is simply curious and eager, and frightened at the avidity of her participation.
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