In today’s society it is become normal to share a lot of information with complete strangers. Through blogging many young girls share almost their entire life. They are writing about them selves, their friend, their family, they post pictures and movies. And it’s a phenomenon that has become very popular among people. Norway’s most popular blog is written by a 14 year young girl and on February 2. 2010 she had over 166 000 viewers. I wonder why we have become so interested in reading about other peoples lives. And why people are interested in sharing their lives with complete strangers. A dynamic could be the money, but I don’t think that is the main reason why people blog. I think it is a need of attention.It’s not only in blog’s private information is shared. Facebook is a internet community that has become very popular the last years. In facebook it is normal to have a lot of friend, and most of the facebook-friends is just people you know of, but you don’t say hi when you meet them in the store. In facebook you can read a lot about your facebook-friends. Things that you normally wouldn’t tell to everybody, that could be things like; who’s in a relationship, who’s single, who’s having a “complicated” relationship, what people are doing, what they are going to do, pictures of them selves, pictures of their kids and a lot more. Do we really want half-strangers to see pictures of our children, or know if we are having a complicated relationship? But we do like reading about others, if not, facebook wouldn’t have existed.
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SvarSlettMedia culture is very exhibitionistic. This cultural trend seems to have been initiated by media products like TV talk-shows (I quess). On the other hand media culture is relatively democratic. It gives us a bit of choice. We may choose what kind of exhibition we want to participate in. We may also try to train our children in critical reception of media products and media environments. This is what media education is about. Let me know if you would be interested in developing a post about those issues (related to media education I mean). I'd be happy to help you :-)
BG
I think the most people get more and more uncritical the more they use facebook, twitter, blogs...particularly young people? Facebook can give a sosial network to some people, a thing to do for others, some are just curious. The time some people prefer to use this media is frightening. But I am self on to facebook....
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