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November 22, 2013

▶ Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube

For me, the most interesting issue here is my Facebook, my Twitter, my Youtube and my blogging alter the people who would be in the 100-200 folks that I am capable of knowing and interacting with regularly throughout life. As noted in the video, this is called the Dunbar Number.

Because of these social media, there are folks who I have never actually met in person who will be a part of the limit of people “in my life”. Also, there are folks I have met but who over time will have “slipped” out of my life except now they are always popping up on my timeline “liking” a post and staying within that 100-200 acquaintances.

▶ Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube.

Can a social employee beat the Dunbar number? (adigaskell.org)
Facebook and the solitary practice of friendship (3quarksdaily.com)
4 Ways to Replace Christmas Cards With Social Media (mashable.com)
People will Talk. Bank on It. (brandautopsy.com)
Here’s Why You Will Never Quit Facebook (businessinsider.com)
Free Speech…Not As Free As You Think (almost30nowwhat.wordpress.com)
What has YouTube taught us over the last 8 years? (digitalmarketingbrenda.wordpress.com)

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Keith “Maggie” Brown

I am a PhD student in Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the intersection of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with Tarot, and the challenge of queering existential hermeneutics.

Categories: Control

Tags: Alain de Botton, anthropology, being social, difference, Dunbar Number, facebook, identity, John Locke, millennials, Online Communities, Robin Dunbar, social anxiety, social media, Social network, sociology, status anxiety, the medium is the message, twitter, youtube

3 responses to “▶ Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube”

ptero9

November 22, 2013 at 10:17 am

I call it Face Crook 🙂

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Michael Eldred

November 25, 2013 at 5:34 am

What does “our” in the title mean? Seems to me there’s a lot of evocation of fake “we’s” these days. In fact, it’s the rule. And what’s “identity”, anyway? Well, you know…

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Keith Wayne Brown

November 25, 2013 at 7:56 am

There indeed are many pseudo-we’s. An effect, perhaps, of so much pseudo-authenticity?

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