FeldmanHood:

Manhood, Feldman style.

Sunday, March 22, 2009

Confusion

I've been confused recently.

By nature, when Facebook went through it's latest makeover, I shrugged it off. I'll get used to the new lay-out like I'd adapted to past re-iterations of one of the towers of our the web today -

But, slowly, and unsurely, I'm now confused.

Here's my confusion.

I'm much less certain now, with the new Facebook design (and the growing popularity of 'twitter') and simultaneously, with this blog, where to allocate my digital musings.

Facebook used to be extroverted by nature, save for the twitter like status updates. The flow of information was designed outward; you posted on peoples wall, sent them links to your favorite sites, and contra-perspectively, they returned the favor.

Now, with the latest (over?)haul, facebook has shifted the balance. With the new wall design, Zucker et. al. encourage posting on your own wall by giving you options as you would recieve on any of your friends walls. Further, your own wall posts are indistinguishable from your friends on your own wall.

Facebook unseemingly adapted itself to allow many of the actions I usually do on this blog, share links, thoughts, etc. on my own wall.

I'm now less sure where to put what, on Feldmanhood, on my Facebook, surely not on twitter (That to me seems like selling your soul, minute by minutes, as you update you status. Soon a twitter loop will exist broadcasting 'I'm updating my twitter', and surely then life will not be worht living, and we will resort to a global Walden).

I don't want to move Feldmanhood to facebook. Not everyone who I'm FB friends with wants to read my overly-verbose and esoteric diatribes on exactly this and other subjects.

So in conclusion, I'm not shutting down Feldmanhood (how could I with such a fitting logo?), nor will I litter my facebook with said diatribes.

I'm just confused, and blogging about it.

Go Cuse!

APF

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