The New Atlantis » Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism
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- Greytank on 2009-07-31 - Tags narcissism , social networking , social network
- Jblue62 on 2009-07-25 - Tags research , online , web2.0 , internet , culture
- Jangjaehee on 2009-02-26 - Tags ITGS , EE , narcissism
- Zoharma on 2008-11-16 - Tags narcissism , web2.0 , socialnetworks , article
- Saleemelamin on 2008-09-15 - Tags no_tag
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This is a quaintly Victorian notion of privacy, embracing the idea that individuals should be able to compartmentalize and parcel out parts of their personalities in different settings. I
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on the Internet, private misbehavior becomes public exhibitionism.
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But “friendship” in these virtual spaces is thoroughly different from real-world friendship. In its traditional sense, friendship is a relationship which, broadly speaking, involves the sharing of mutual interests, reciprocity, trust, and the revelation of intimate details over time and within specific social (and cultural) contexts. Because friendship depends on mutual revelations that are concealed from the rest of the world, it can only flourish within the boundaries of privacy; the idea of public friendship is an oxymoron.
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To be sure, we all rank our friends, albeit in unspoken and intuitive ways. One friend might be a good companion for outings to movies or concerts; another might be someone with whom you socialize in professional settings; another might be the kind of person for whom you would drop everything if he needed help.
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ocial networking websites may make relationships more reliable, but whether those relationships can be humanly satisfying remains to be seen.
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