Brynn Evans on 2008-09-05
Ito's work looking at "microblogging" of sorts between couples on cell phones.
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05 Sep 08
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n’t think they wanted constant, up-to-the-minute updates on what other people are doing. Yet when they experienced this sort of omnipresent knowledge, they found it intrig
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Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.”
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physically near someone and picking up on his mood through the little things he does — body language, sighs, stray comments — out of the corner of your eye
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They’re far shorter, far more frequent and less carefully considered
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The growth of ambient intimacy can seem like modern narcissism taken to a new, supermetabolic extreme — the ultimate expression of a generation of celebrity-addled youths who believe their every utterance is fascinating and ought to be shared with the world
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This is the paradox of ambient awareness. Each little update — each individual bit of social information — is insignificant on its own, even supremely mundane. But taken together, over time, the little snippets coalesce into a surprisingly sophisticated portrait of your friends’ and family members’ lives
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but the idea of using communication tools as a form of “co-presence” has been around for a while.
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Mizuko Ito
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But they also discovered that the little Ping-Ponging messages felt even more intimate than a phone call.
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But it’s easy to tweet all the time, to post pictures of what I’m doing, to keep social relations up.
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Brynn Evans on 2008-09-05
Benefit of twitter: "can keep social relations up" and maintain a "much bigger social circle"
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Things like Twitter have actually given me a much bigger social circle.
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n 1998, the anthropologist Robin Dunbar argued that each human has a hard-wired upper limit on the number of people he or she can personally know at one time
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about 150
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Are people who use Facebook and Twitter increasing their Dunbar number, because they can so easily keep track of so many more people?
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Brynn Evans on 2008-09-05
Good question!
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Many maintained that their circle of true intimates, their very close friends and family, had not become bigger
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But where their sociality had truly exploded was in their “weak ties” — loose acquaintances, people they knew less well.
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My overall Dunbar number is thus 301: Facebook (254) + Twitter (47), double what it would be without technology.
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Sociologists have long found that “weak ties” greatly expand your ability to solve problems.
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one account for their weak ties, one for their deeper relationships
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awareness tools like News Feed might be creating a whole new class of relationships that are nearly parasocial
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a culture of people who know much more about themselves
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