pifie Story of an analysis of identity as social exchange value in the virtual field.
One stupid mistake left me in a situation that led me to think about how we are subject to the dynamics of a particular identity, in this case, the "new" battlefield identity: social networks.
Princess asshole / @ PelotudPrincess (Twitter)
few days ago I decided to conclude (early) my side project blog former Princess Diary of asshole. Whose original idea was not so bad, was steeped in common places as it applies to must be present and urban women. Proposed to show the fabric of the metropolis in relation to what is established as a social agency guidelines, particularly in how it appears to reflect the new role of women, that has been building since the '60s.
Princess met assholes all: as yet responded to the old model of women, the mine expected, hoping that someone or something the rescue the wake of the bubble of bullshit that the postmodern world offered him since childhood. He lived in a tower with amenities in the northern part of the Federal Capital. Lacked nothing: living alone "top" (bank gentrified for their parents), was super shopping online, the link with the outside world was the laptop with WIFI connection, digital TV, the Cosmopolitan of the month and the iPhone . It was all I needed to keep up the whoring typical among the old royal families of the Middle Ages.
But today and in Federal Capital, in what I believe is a survival adapted from country clubs or gated communities, within the perimeter critical as the City of Buenos Aires. Executives no longer have to travel more than an hour to get to their offices in Puerto Madero, if they live in these new towers in the heart of Belgrano, Palermo or Recoleta.
The Princess Project idea asshole, was to show how nothing changed in the general social dynamics, more amenities, prosthesis and social networking technologies are invented. We are and we live in the same spirit of the Middle Ages, regardless of social statement, as the identity and relationship standards are the same. Yesterday and today set patterns that had the same ambition, but the patronage offered a deal perhaps more warm and familiar (such as patriarchy still offered a relative degree of protection) that the present United Neoliberal, where the movement functions in relation to securities that ultimately are worthless.
Princess asshole showing the banality of everyday life and expected to give a qualitative shift in their way of life. She was not able to self-manage the change, like any asshole, expected to come change it. Whether in the form of a prince or Oracle.
As the plot was being constructed, were appearing new characters and roles. The blog intended to use its network owned by extension so that a interested reader can take the role of a character, create your own blog and interact with PP, in response to a form of cyber-novel type delivery.
Thus, it began to appear the classic prince, invisible, living only in the imagination and the desire to PP. Adela Hurlingham County, was his best friend. The Opendoor princess, was the whore of all the territory, the most envied, which had "made life." But the qualitative turn rested on the goalie, once parents decide PP Delia fire his mother as his role as messenger was obsolete by the technological breakthrough, communications.
The goalkeeper was a little superstitious type and skeptical at the same time, which read all the newspapers every morning, knew the movements of the neighborhood and the Tower, and as such was to function as PP oracle. His guardian and savior, who would achieve eventually prick the bubble wake and that was from home. In his little table in the lobby always left a book of Turner and Frazer.
Several liked the idea, but after all no one produced anything and PP was left alone, as in the Tower. And bored.
And here's the point: he was bored because he was nobody. Lacked recognition and therefore a legitimate social identity.
I go through it all the time. But specifically it happened two days ago, when deciding to remove from circulation to PP, I also accidentally removed from circulation Twitter myself.
My ex identity was Twitter @ ThinkPinkFink, had managed to build a little place, tiny, in the network. And it went away leaving me in the place just started, not followers, or history of tweets. It begins as one . And the followers decide who you are and worth. As in any other network.
Last March 24 marked the day of memory and between 4,000 and 10,000 (the number varies greatly depending on the source) people gathered at Plaza de Mayo, several of them holding a banner of 600 meters to the 30,000 faces disappeared, killed and tortured during the military dictatorship.
few years ago, people already can afford the pleasure of appearing and disappearing at ease in social networks or to appear or disappear to other users . (Oops! people suddenly disappear in our social networks, Though shame on us!)
What is this communication that such advance is difficult to resist? Even the most reluctant nowadays has its own Facebook or Twitter. Not to mention the old and MSN or fotologs profiles.
Can not control how we construct our identity and how it can impact on the social field?; You ever had that power?
no longer important how one is or what you do. Is the number of followers or users add you to their social networks which legitimizes who you are, and therefore determines your worth in this world (virtual) where people are moving and no substance, only on his field extraciberespacial.
While this happens, the virtual interaction takes a leading role and is replacing real. How many times I make a plan with someone and then finish to complete details by mail, msn or sms. What happens to me is that so far the plans is that people very suspicious, because it is so fashionable to be "hung", the only alternative left to me the other register your commitment is to break the balls by sms or email to confirm and reconfirm the appointment, plan, meeting or whatever.
And thus reveals the contradiction of the virtual world, people have hung gradually while you want to be increasingly connected . The virtual world and replaces the real world and in these conditions acquire another dynamic identities, another value, another meaning. One can have as many users as desired, may be as many people as you wish, you can adjust the impact on their followers as well as desired. And all vary in relation to the amount of information flow to circulate, in the form of photos, gossip, sentences of no more than 140 characters, links to YouTube (if not himself, which is exposed by pelotudeces), etc.
important thing is to be connected and noticed. Is the new way to be somebody in this world.
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