My cousin Brad just emailed me this great read in the NYT on how kids express themselves online. It talks about how they are increasingly putting their lives on the internet via photos, blogs, videos, etc.
It's a trend I only half get. Ostensibly, I do have a podcast, facebook profile, myspace page, flickr account and blog. Yet it doesn't pervade my life as it pervades the lives of the people in the article. To me it sometimes seems strange. At one hand it seems natural for people to express who they are to the world, on the other hand, with all the photos and videos floating around, it's hard to imagine how anybody will run for political office in the future.
Say Anything (NYT) [Thanks for the link Brad!]
You forgot the most important site in the article - Vimeo. That one is where the future of video communities will be. At it's New York Magazine, not NYT...
Posted by: Jon | February 08, 2007 at 11:43 PM
This was an interesting read. Myspace and Facebook are great social networking sites that are essentially ubiquious, therefore attracting young individuals to jump onto this bandwagon fad. In addition to sites like these, from a video game standpoint, recent statistics show that 32% of Americans play video games on wireless devices such as a cell phone or a PDA where they also must include personal information about themselves in certain multi-player games.
The second largest genre of computer games (20%) happens to be family & Children's games. With World of Warcfart being the top selling computer game in 2005.
Posted by: Christine Seddon | February 14, 2007 at 01:04 PM
I spelled ubiquitous. Ooops.
Posted by: Christine Seddon | February 14, 2007 at 01:06 PM