"If I become an ax murderer, these commentors might be disturbed or disgusted, but they wouldn’t feel that I have betrayed them personally, or let them down."
Or mystified that in a country with 433 million firearms someone went to the trouble of using an ax.
Thanks for sharing this (deep left?) analysis of the virtual online ecosystem… this seems like, important stuff. Aside from the anonymity factor, I think your right to point out there’s a lot more going on: “However, when creators engage in over-sharing, the risk of stalking increases exponentially.
Like a shark drawn to blood, stalkers are attracted to emotional openness and vulnerability. Creators who share intimate parts of their life with their audience are much more likely to attract stalkers than those who write about more objective, abstract topics, like chess or science.”
If the virtual world is an ecosystem, and one that prioritizes capturing attention for profit or increased status, and if this ecosystem trickles into real life behavior and psychology (which it obviously does), and it prioritizes flattening people to identities that can be platformed, bought & sold so to speak, rather than interacted with and understood in all their complexity, nuance, topography, wrinkles and cracks… then this can spillover into some real life dissonance. I wonder how much this factors into bigger cultural issues like identitarian-“ism” and well, like a lot of things.
I mean, I think what I’m saying is I wonder if a virtual “attention-capture” economy warps more than just the online world into a culture of prey-who-want-attention and predator-who-consume … if the psychology is real online then it can become real IRL-real; I.e. isolated men only getting feedback online creating communities around misogyny and not desires for mutual interaction…
"If I become an ax murderer, these commentors might be disturbed or disgusted, but they wouldn’t feel that I have betrayed them personally, or let them down."
Or mystified that in a country with 433 million firearms someone went to the trouble of using an ax.
Fascinating read nonetheless!
Thanks for sharing this (deep left?) analysis of the virtual online ecosystem… this seems like, important stuff. Aside from the anonymity factor, I think your right to point out there’s a lot more going on: “However, when creators engage in over-sharing, the risk of stalking increases exponentially.
Like a shark drawn to blood, stalkers are attracted to emotional openness and vulnerability. Creators who share intimate parts of their life with their audience are much more likely to attract stalkers than those who write about more objective, abstract topics, like chess or science.”
If the virtual world is an ecosystem, and one that prioritizes capturing attention for profit or increased status, and if this ecosystem trickles into real life behavior and psychology (which it obviously does), and it prioritizes flattening people to identities that can be platformed, bought & sold so to speak, rather than interacted with and understood in all their complexity, nuance, topography, wrinkles and cracks… then this can spillover into some real life dissonance. I wonder how much this factors into bigger cultural issues like identitarian-“ism” and well, like a lot of things.
I mean, I think what I’m saying is I wonder if a virtual “attention-capture” economy warps more than just the online world into a culture of prey-who-want-attention and predator-who-consume … if the psychology is real online then it can become real IRL-real; I.e. isolated men only getting feedback online creating communities around misogyny and not desires for mutual interaction…
Did not expect DLA to use the term a-logging. KF terms have spread far and wide!
I could write a soulless snippet / takeaway about what I just learnt but id rather let you know that I appreciate how edgy you are...
You catch me off guard all the time. It is absolutely nuts.