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  • DBlume thinks
    maybe davidd freed himself from the attention-deficit inducing tyranny of social sites. Good for him, then.
  • davidd is
    just getting to this now! Hold yer horses... or your clicks!
  • davidd says
    thank you to DBlume for posting this interesting link.
  • davidd says
    or both links, actually.
  • davidd says
    addressing the second article first: I disagree with much of it. Yes, I understand Social Media Fatigue.
  • davidd says
    that's why I'm not on Plurk as much. Sometimes I scan Twitter from work, as an escapist tool, but few of my Plurk friends tweet anymore.
  • DBlume says
    I thought you'd be amused that Alexia seemingly wasn't even aware of the consequences of what she was admitting to.
  • davidd says
    but, at work, for example: there is nobody with whom I share many, or any, interests.
  • DBlume says
    like having no attention span is normal, and is the target marketplace to which content makers should aim.
  • davidd says
    I don't go online to seek acclaim from strangers. I go online to find people sharing my eclectic combination of interests...
  • davidd says
    ... people who are smart and funny.
  • davidd says
    I don't know why other people spend time online. I see lots of people, girls mostly, on the beach typing into their phones. What's the point
  • davidd
    ... of going to Hawaii if you're spending your time texting and surfing FaceBook? But for some people, that's what works. Because...
  • davidd
    ... what's the point of snapping toy pictures and posting them on Flickr? I dunno, but countless thousands of people do it!
  • davidd was
    kind of internet addicted. Still am, actually. I get edgy when I can't post my daily photos. I grow irritable when I can't access...
  • davidd
    ... information immediately. I LOVE having immediate access to answers to questions!
  • davidd says
    as I mentioned long ago, Flickr suffices, for me, as a blogging & social networking outlet. I don't have time for much beyond that.
  • davidd says
    I strongly disagree with the premise of the "Drugs" article that surfing Instagram pics rather than watching movies is "alarming."
  • davidd says
    Instagram shows you what real people are doing in the real world. It's not passively spoon-feeding you corporate content.
  • davidd says
    as an Instagram user, you can interact by leaving comments or posting your own content. Money is not a significant access barrier.
  • davidd
    rarely watches movies or TV either. In my free time, I'm on Flickr, or reading online articles that catch my interest.
  • davidd thinks
    most movies & TV shows are boring and confining. I have to endure the pacing, whether too fast or too slow.
  • davidd says
    online, I can consume at my leisure, whether skimming or savoring in depth, as time and mood dictate.
  • davidd says
    online, I can express my opinion; even if nobody is listening, at least I get the satisfaction of expressing myself regarding the content.
  • davidd says
    in the "olden days," when TV was broadcast and there were only a few channels, chances are friends at work or school watched the same...
  • davidd
    shows you did the previous night, and you could discuss them the next day. Now, with so many media choices, it's easier to go online to...
  • davidd
    participate in media discussions.
  • davidd is
    more interested in creative efforts on a small scale from individuals rather than big-budget corporate media productions.
  • davidd asks
    as the Instagram article asks, why bother watching a narrative that isn’t connected to you...
  • davidd
    when you can pop open your iPhone and get a quick hit of rarefied entertainment from people you actually know?
  • davidd says
    or, people you can come to know, over time, by following their Plurk or Twitter or Flickr or LJ or Instagram streams.
  • davidd says
    unfortunately, I'm unlikely to become acquainted with Jessica Alba by watching movies.
  • davidd says
    but I've become "friends" with Cami via Flickr, and we regularly "converse" via comment streams, emails, and occasional snail mail.
  • davidd shares
    http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4029/4455320473_cba21cbb4d.jpg
  • davidd
    <agrees> with concerns about diminishing attention spans (having read Maggie Jackson's "Distracted," Nick Carr's "The Shallows," and...
  • davidd
    Chris Hedges' "Empire of Illusion," plus having tried to sit thru TV shows recently on the Nickelodeon channel.
  • davidd was
    a bit shell-shocked by the blitz of images and ads on Nickelodeon. The steady narrative pace of the old "Jonny Quest" episodes is not...
  • davidd
    ... anywhere in evidence in the new "Monster High" TV specials, or in the 3-minute online animated webisodes.
  • davidd says
    and of course, I see the difficulty kids have concentrating in school on a daily basis. After trying to watch that Monster High show on...
  • davidd
    ... Nickelodeon, however, I saw how outmoded old-school teaching style has become. Kids need stuff FAST to stay engaged. At least, that's...
  • davidd
    ... how they're being trained to respond by TV and movies. Fast-action cutting, the norm in TV promo teasers, is training us all to look...
  • davidd
    ... and to respond primally (lots of sexual imagery in those fast-paced ads) rather than thinking and following.
  • davidd says
    thus, movies and TV are actually worse for thinking and concentrating, IMHO, than Instagram or Twitter.
  • davidd
    <agrees> that Instagram and other online infotainment is killing Hollywood. That's the real purpose behind PIPA and SOPA: stop the public!
  • davidd thinks
    Hollywood & the media want us to CONSUME, not produce. The goal of SOPA is ultimately to reduce the internet to a one-way information flow,
  • davidd
    from them to us, just like movies and broadcast TV. The government agrees; they fear the power of flash-mobbing. They don't like it that...
  • davidd
    anyone, anywhere, can upload real-time content; like our bold US Marines urinating on dead bodies, for example.
  • davidd says
    Or organizing flash-mobs via Twitter. Or pushing Ron Paul for President. If Paul didn't have massive online support, mostly from...
  • davidd
    ... young, "disaffected youth," he would have been brushed aside as a protest candidate.
  • davidd thinks
    even comparatively innocuous user-generated content, like Amazon movie reviews, is a threat to corporate media. Amazon users tell us...
  • davidd
    ... if a movie sucks; we don't have to settle for Roger Ebert's opinion, we can search for and find, on topic-specific forums, what people..
  • davidd
    who share OUR specific niche interests think about movies, TV, books, or whatever else we're considering investing our time in.
  • davidd says
    and chances are, we'll get so involved in an online discussion, or looking at viewer-generated content, that we won't get around to...
  • davidd
    watching the movie we were inquiring about.
  • davidd
    <agrees> that Instagram (as a type of content) is better than movies or TV, and is definitely a threat to Hollywood.
  • davidd says
    when a YouTube video of guy in a zebra costume dancing around his back yard can generate 40,000 hits in a day, for a budget of ZERO...
  • davidd
    ... Hollywood must be worried. When people like DBlume and davidd can discuss, without corporate mediation, this issue...
  • davidd
    on a public forum, for potentially ANYONE to read and think about, Hollywood and the New York publishing industry will worry.
  • davidd says
    the immediacy, the personal relevance, and the social aspects of user-generated content have effectively killed newspapers.
  • davidd says
    the magazine industry is disappearing. Television and movies are depending on an ever-older demographic, because the younger viewers...
  • davidd
    ... are creating and consuming content from their peers and have less time to sit passively in front of a screen.
  • davidd says
    old people don't go to movies as much (fixed income vs ten bucks to see what is likely to be a lousy movie).
  • davidd wonders
    which will disappear first, the big-budget motion picture, or series television?
  • davidd
    <agrees> with the Instagram article, but isn't all that keen on Instagram itself, even tho' several of my Flickr friends are using it.
  • davidd is
    still not a fan of over-processed blurry cell phone snapshots (even though I post a fair number myself, when I'm tired or in a hurry).
  • davidd
    understands and appreciates the appeal of the visual equivalent of Twitter, though. With Instagram and equivalent options...
  • davidd
    that pesky necessity of typing up to 140 characters is eliminated. Now, point, snap, click, and everybody in the world (potentially) can SEE
  • davidd
    exactly what you are doing right this very instant!
  • davidd asks
    how cool is that?
  • davidd asks
    Or how scary, if you happen to be a crooked cop, a depraved soldier, or a Hollywood producer?
  • davidd
    wrote about his amazement over media distribution possibilities in the caption to this Flickr photo: http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5089/5233700000_16def9e15e.jpg
  • DBlume says
    Wow, Mr. D. I was hoping for a response, but I never expected all this in plurk replies!
  • DBlume wonders
    if you're going to consolidate this into a blog of your own? (Are you even tempted to?) You've made interesting points.

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