an oldie but a goodie - has anyone posted this yet? Wags, did you show this to us at the start of this 23 things project? It's very good, and although it's had over 3 million views new people are still discovering it.
17 November 2009
10 November 2009
inappropriate intimacy
A student alerted me to this post.
http://childhood101.blogspot.com/2009/11/reflections-on-social-media.html
We are supposed to consider it a wonderfully positive use of social media, but I'm afraid I find it fairly nauseating. If the writer couldn't be bothered connecting with someone when she was alive, how does that person's tragically premature death change things? Nasty voyeurism, I think - perhaps it's just the same sort of human phenomenon that has passers-by stop to gawk at nasty road smashes or bushfire victims, made more obvious through the evidence of this blog?
http://childhood101.blogspot.com/2009/11/reflections-on-social-media.html
We are supposed to consider it a wonderfully positive use of social media, but I'm afraid I find it fairly nauseating. If the writer couldn't be bothered connecting with someone when she was alive, how does that person's tragically premature death change things? Nasty voyeurism, I think - perhaps it's just the same sort of human phenomenon that has passers-by stop to gawk at nasty road smashes or bushfire victims, made more obvious through the evidence of this blog?
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