Comments | davidfcooper: NYTMag: Sociological look at ambient awareness (following FB+Twitter updates)

davidfcooper

NYTMag: Sociological look at ambient awareness (following FB+Twitter updates)

Sep 09, 2008 11:13

Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does - body language, sighs, stray comments - out of the corner of your eye... ( Read more... )

privacy, micro-blogging, sociology, intimacy, twitter, facebook, relationships, self-knowledge

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butterflymama3 September 10 2008, 14:25:00 UTC

The article is fascinating, isn't it?

davidfcooper September 10 2008, 14:43:36 UTC

It is. I see that you update your FB status frequently but rarely post on Twitter. Is that because of the 140 character limit?

butterflymama3 September 10 2008, 14:50:24 UTC

No real reason other than I have more friends on FB and it is a bit easier. I can only keep up with so much. I can have my gmail and my FB windows open at work and not get in too much trouble since I use gmail for all my email and my boss and I constantly email each other during the day and she is cool with FB being up but add in another site, not sure about that.

davidfcooper September 10 2008, 15:22:17 UTC

You can update Twitter while on Facebook: http://apps.new.facebook.com/twitter/

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