Being on Jyte & Twitter & Blogging etc gradually thins your persona
By
Ren Reynolds
on April 15, 2007
All these media feed on creative input, groups of us Venn in and out across them, to keep up we stretch further and future touching on points making blip-thoughts, profound instances, moving on. I feel connected but thinned so I end up a molecule wide, for ever struggling to be deep in the shallow end, maybe this is better more connected, i dunno.
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A coat of paint on a wall has more effect than a tin of paint. Spread away.
i dunno; i don't blog and don't even know what twitter is.
@Vynce - do and c
epred > A coat of paint on a wall has more effect than a tin of paint.
But throwing a can of paint at something can have a huge effect, take the aggressive connotation away and the metaphor hangs together.
what does "do and c" mean?
do: blog
c: what it's like to blog as well as the rest.
where c = 'see' for someone that Twitters / txt's a log i.e. me.
@ren ouch. Hit by a can of paint. I should have been a bit more explicit on the terms of use of paint. Feels like I am in the film Bedazzled (original or weird remake)
ah. "c" == a letter of the alphabet which carries no semantic meaning for someone who's speaking English, i.e. me.
I don't understand what it means to "thin your persona". It's true that the more you tell about yourself, the less mystery there is about you, but to me it's unclear whether that is a good thing or not.
@Vynce, 'c' does carry semantic meaning on its own. Just depends on context, i find short fire exchanges like this to be akin to txt or leet where using single letters or numbers that are near-homonyms is accepted.
@Rorek - I mean that (1) people's engagement with you tends to be shallow and wide - which is possibly better than without W2.0 stuff where between any two individuals it might have been none existent e.g. this very exchange. (2) that this might have a reflexive impact on self in some way.
I don't see jyte as a "short fire exchange" -- i try to hanve meaningful conversations, clearly albeit efficiently, cohesive though broken up into multiple claims, personal though public.
this is what I like about Jyte.
I got a few real life friends on Jyte and Twitter, some even read my blog. They get better idea of where I stand and what I'm up to this way, as these communication tools complement what they already know of me.
As for the rest of you, well yeah, it's going to seem a bit thin. But it's a start. Even my friends where strangers before I met them ;)
I don't that this is necessitated. I find that participating in the right kinds of activity on Jytwitterspacebook actually help to hone my persona.