Thursday 1 March 2012

Vanity Generation

Yu-Hao Chang

The 21st century has become a veritable "Facebook age”, In early July 2011, the number of Facebook users worldwide exceeded the 700 million mark, and the number of daily share was about 4 billion. Regularly updating your Facebook status is becoming an indispensable part in many people’s life. Even Twitter, has had close to a 200% annual subscriber growth in the past three years.

This is a crisis of identity and a reality show complex intertwined. This is a narcissistic era. British scientists recently issued a warning: Facebook and Twitter is creating a "vanity generation. This generation cannot concentrate on one thing for a long time and lack effective communication skills. "Attention"and "feedback" is the sole focus of their life.




In the article, Social Life, Personal Life, School: Identity Crisis, it states the computer virtual world seems to always be dirty due to the real world being slightly contaminated. The computer gives rise to a spiritual experience, a mental construct, or a kind of feeling into the computer mind. Some people will therefore indulge in the meantime. This phenomenon reflects the contemporary "identity crisis." People seem to live in a non-realistic parallel world with self-assessment dependent upon the comments and clicks ratio.

The blog is a tool for self-speaking, and is relatively independent of the private discourse space of the open discourse monopoly. Not only does it established the individual subject, but also the main body of the dispersion into stand-alone or multi-identity space. Overall, blog writing results in identity-based psychology. Construction of identity cannot be recognized solely based on the reality of social psychology. Celebrity and star blogs highlight the quality of life, consumption patterns, and the avant-garde way of thinking. The blogs represents a specific class of superiority and privilege, such as the capacity of the leaders of the blog to speak on a the behalf of a specific group.

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