in response to the facebook policy change shinanagins
If ‘our’ generation were to be categorized I think we’d be the ‘tell all’ generation. Our presence on the internet is calculated and embodied. It is a space where an existence is chosen and enacted… like clothes, but with more (explicit, and if I may say so, heavy handed) meaning. We exist freely and openly on the internet, yet it is a mask, and we do feel as if we own this mask because it is our ‘face’ (in my grossly cliche terminology) which determines our ‘being’ in some manner. When our embodiment is violated, or stolen, we fall apart a little. Facebook is a more complicated sort of social space than I think I want to give it permission to be. The entire internet is. This response for instance… who is writing it? how I come off through my prose — a representation of my actual being? what does it mean that I’m not an embodied being… or even really gendered, or anything here?
