I heard someone say that with all the time that we are spending online that we are losing individuality. The argument that they made is that we are spending so much time on these social sites that we are losing our individuality because we are just seeing our experience online in a social, community setting. We end up finding our identity in the community rather than our individuality.
We used to have this pseudo-anonymity thing where we would hide behind a screen name. We would make emails and screen names that show some hidden fake identity. We would do all kinds of crazy things behind the pseudo-anonymous name. Our behavior online lined up with our fake names.
Then we started using our real names. I’m not sure that our behavior changed much, but then we started sharing everything online. We started telling everyone what we ate and where we went. We shared everything online. We give it all away. I think that’s where this guy was coming from – that we lose our individuality because we share everything. Am I even making sense? Maybe I didn’t hear the guy right.
Is that even possible to lose our individuality? I don’t know. I gotta thing about it more I guess.
I think, at least as Christians, we are in some degree called to lose, well maybe not our individuality, but our self in Christ therefore if we become more like him then sure we wouldn’t be individuals but a community living for one goal. I don’t know though, because I do in all of that Christ did make us different and we should embrace that.
Bit of a contradicting statement, in that we are losing our individualaity on social networking sites, yet it also states we are losing our identity and finding it in Social net works rather than in individuality. Two points to that 1,) this would imply that identity is formed in individuality. Sorry but research shows that this is not the case. 2,) individuality is expressed in many ways, we make ourselves individual, society puts us into small individual groups with our own individual traits. I am a Little confused with what this article is implying where identity comes from or is formed. A little esoteric I feel.
Thank you for the comment.
I should have been a little more clear about how I am questioning the statement myself.
I’d love to see some of that research that you are talking about.
The article is not really landing on any idea as much as I’m wondering about the idea. It was something that I had heard and I don’t know how I feel or think about it. Thanks for the insight that you give though. I appreciate you reading and leaving a comment.