Scientists study "life online"
In the latest issue of the scientific journal New Scientist published several articles under the general title "Living Online". One of the articles contains an analysis of the effect of social networks on society . According to the author, some people under the influence of the Internet is changing the psychology of behavior. Figuratively speaking, they used to argue like this: “I had some emotions, and I want to call a friend,” and now the psychology has changed: “I want to get emotions, and therefore I have to call.” Due to the intensive use of modern communication tools, a person now has far fewer opportunities to be alone and calmly sort out his feelings.
The technology forces us to instantly share our emotions, because blogs, IM pagers and other means of communication stimulate constant communication in real time. The worst thing is that because of this, some people may experience some kind of emotional dependence on the Internet.
Another article in a scientific journal is devoted to the disappearance of privacy while living online. In fact, if you study a person’s blog, his friends and personal profile, then you can learn almost everything about him. Even if a person tries to keep his privacy, uses a pseudonym, tries not to name the real names and company names - even in this case, the various details of his life gradually appear with time. Millions of people expose their souls in blogs and social networks, and there are more and more such people.
In fact, the authors of the articles in New Scientist are not scientists at all, but publicists, well-known experts in this field. Together with two articles published one literary work. The cyberpunk classic Bruce Sterling wrote a futuristic essay "I saw how the best minds of my generation were destroyed by Google . " In this story, we are also talking about the Internet society of 2026 through and through. In its inherent style, Sterling describes in detail the picture of the future. After twenty years, every object in the real world is tagged with radio chips, tagged and tracked via the Internet. Virtuality absorbed the world around and turned it into a matrix. All social relationships are digitized. Even cybergirls communicate exclusively online. Privacy no longer exists. At the federal level, there is a ban on the sale of aerosol cans to teenagers, but they still get them and mark all the walls in the city with the names of their favorite pop idols, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. This is the only way they can protest.
The technology forces us to instantly share our emotions, because blogs, IM pagers and other means of communication stimulate constant communication in real time. The worst thing is that because of this, some people may experience some kind of emotional dependence on the Internet.
Another article in a scientific journal is devoted to the disappearance of privacy while living online. In fact, if you study a person’s blog, his friends and personal profile, then you can learn almost everything about him. Even if a person tries to keep his privacy, uses a pseudonym, tries not to name the real names and company names - even in this case, the various details of his life gradually appear with time. Millions of people expose their souls in blogs and social networks, and there are more and more such people.
In fact, the authors of the articles in New Scientist are not scientists at all, but publicists, well-known experts in this field. Together with two articles published one literary work. The cyberpunk classic Bruce Sterling wrote a futuristic essay "I saw how the best minds of my generation were destroyed by Google . " In this story, we are also talking about the Internet society of 2026 through and through. In its inherent style, Sterling describes in detail the picture of the future. After twenty years, every object in the real world is tagged with radio chips, tagged and tracked via the Internet. Virtuality absorbed the world around and turned it into a matrix. All social relationships are digitized. Even cybergirls communicate exclusively online. Privacy no longer exists. At the federal level, there is a ban on the sale of aerosol cans to teenagers, but they still get them and mark all the walls in the city with the names of their favorite pop idols, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. This is the only way they can protest.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4435/
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