The Dialectic of the Public and the Private
Another excerpt from a recent conversation, though a different friend.
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the definitions for public and private are so fucked up, it's in crazy tension
it's really grey. It's just interesting. Things like Facebook are, on the surface, exacerbating the problem
on the other hand, facebook is also, essentially, forcing a massive number of people to individual try to negotiate this new territory
and in the process, things are becoming roughly defined
on a wide-spread level
cohesion is starting to form, but it's still weird and awkward
and people are exploiting it essentially before people have been able to figure out what, if any, sort of ethics should be the norm
so it's not like they're doing anything wrong, because we have no idea how to define right or wrong here
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the definitions for public and private are so fucked up, it's in crazy tension
it's really grey. It's just interesting. Things like Facebook are, on the surface, exacerbating the problem
on the other hand, facebook is also, essentially, forcing a massive number of people to individual try to negotiate this new territory
and in the process, things are becoming roughly defined
on a wide-spread level
cohesion is starting to form, but it's still weird and awkward
and people are exploiting it essentially before people have been able to figure out what, if any, sort of ethics should be the norm
so it's not like they're doing anything wrong, because we have no idea how to define right or wrong here