Time on Mark Elliot

Richard Stengel:
"All social media involve a mixture of narcissism and voyeurism. Most of us display a combination of the two, which is why social media are flourishing faster and penetrating deeper than any other social development in memory. Social media play into the parts of human character that don't change, even while changing the nature of what once seemed immutable."

LOL two of my fav words: narcissism and voyeurism. so true. so dangerous.
isnt it just public display of. BLAH?
why do we like it? why is it wrong?

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Lev Grossmam:
"He approaches conversation as a way of exchanging data as rapidly and efficiently as possible, rather than as a recreational activity undertaken for its own sake. He is formidably quick and talks rapidly and precisely, and if he has no data to transmit, he abruptly falls silent. ("I usually don't like things that are too much about me" was how he began out first interview.) He cannot be relied on to throw the ball back or give you encouraging facial cues. His default expression is a direct and slightly wideeyed stare that makes you wonder if you've got a spider on your forehead."

spider on my nose tip. scarily exciting.
conversation as data transmission. true, but too sad to be explicated.
ball throw: or i had been in a situation when i was constantly thrown at. which is actually not too bad when i have no ´data´ to input. enjoy getting info lol.

"One of the interests Zuckerberg lists on his Facebook page is "Eliminating Desire." "I just want to focus on what we're doing," Zuckerberg says. "When I put it in my profile, that's what I focused on. I think it's probably Buddhist? To me it's just -- I don't know, I think it would be very easy to get distracted and get caught up in short-term things or material things that don't matter. The phrase is actually 'Eliminating desire for all that doesn't really matter.'""

eliminating desire huh...at his age? thought it is a journey starts after 47?

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It's a Mark different from that in the movie.
and I like the real one
if the Times is not a propagandaic megazine aha.

and nice view on the reality and virtuality. (<- and as a perceptionist i have something to add to that...hmmm...)

so the internet is not necessarily a virtual (sort of artificially constructed and unreal?) but isnt world itself a construction too. arbitrary organisation and orders? why are humans sorted by sex not earlobe presence (that will be so so funny lol)? and theres the bordering of countries (why are there countries after all. artificial governance...) so that is civilisation, a word seems at all positive. why do we act so civilised? why is eating with cutlery not hands civilised?

and nice view on the internet being a community different from all.

"No single computer runs the network. No one is in charge. It's a paradise of equality and anonymity, an electronic commune."

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want to get my christmas reading
is Ulysses too ambitious of me? hmmmmm.......