Comments on: Defeating Big Brother by Getting Him to Kill Himself (or, You wanna spy on me? Spy on THIS!) http://larrynocella.com/blog1/2010/03/05/defeating-big-brother-by-getting-him-to-kill-himself-or-you-wanna-spy-on-me-spy-on-this/ LarryNocella.com Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:38:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Andy Breslin http://larrynocella.com/blog1/2010/03/05/defeating-big-brother-by-getting-him-to-kill-himself-or-you-wanna-spy-on-me-spy-on-this/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Andy Breslin Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:15:29 +0000 http://larrynocella.com/blog1/?p=149#comment-55 In a slight tangent: I'm always amazed by people who choose to communicate with others not by sending them an email, but by posting on their public wall in social networks. I can understand if it is the sort of thing that invites general commentary, but people do it with mundane messages that have NOTHING to do with anyone else. Like "hey how's it going?" Why in the hell don't they just send an email? Why does EVERYONE need to see that you said hello to your friend? Why have we become this generation of voyeurs and exhibitionists? Besides just being plain stupid, IMO, this information overload destroys effective communication. If I want to take a look at a friend;s facebook wall, for example, I am interested in seeing the things that this friend has elected to post. I want to see what he or she has decided to put out there. I have no interest in sifting through their own personal email full of their messages from people I don't know that had no business being sent in any other form but email in the first place. What makes people think that everyone wants to see their utterly mundane personal messages to each other? Why not send them an email and reserve public walls for things that are, you know PUBLIC discussions? In a slight tangent: I’m always amazed by people who choose to communicate with others not by sending them an email, but by posting on their public wall in social networks. I can understand if it is the sort of thing that invites general commentary, but people do it with mundane messages that have NOTHING to do with anyone else. Like “hey how’s it going?” Why in the hell don’t they just send an email? Why does EVERYONE need to see that you said hello to your friend?

Why have we become this generation of voyeurs and exhibitionists?

Besides just being plain stupid, IMO, this information overload destroys effective communication. If I want to take a look at a friend;s facebook wall, for example, I am interested in seeing the things that this friend has elected to post. I want to see what he or she has decided to put out there. I have no interest in sifting through their own personal email full of their messages from people I don’t know that had no business being sent in any other form but email in the first place.

What makes people think that everyone wants to see their utterly mundane personal messages to each other? Why not send them an email and reserve public walls for things that are, you know PUBLIC discussions?

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