tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693245947215942449.post225550812325803660..comments2023-06-28T06:46:27.798-07:00Comments on In The Midst Of Life: Anti-social AlgorithmRatna Ramanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09037186482553740519noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693245947215942449.post-34333870860399449602011-08-15T01:15:11.463-07:002011-08-15T01:15:11.463-07:00Facebook has always been a topic for debate betwee...Facebook has always been a topic for debate between me and my friends. I do not support it.However signed up for it just for the sake of a few of my closest friends living so far away and who are available only on facebook !<br />Even then I find the conversations ( if you can call it by that word !) are one-liners, comments on photos and on random things. I agree with you, Human potential has shrunk. We are all so tied to these gadgets. <br />I was shocked when I realised few months back that I had to " teach " my six year old daughter & her friends " hop-scotch " ! Games that we played as children...already faded ?<br />Wonder what else would fade out with this era ?archanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03069475864522612872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693245947215942449.post-54839065557379368432011-03-11T01:46:07.500-08:002011-03-11T01:46:07.500-08:00i agree with the argument but also feel that faceb...i agree with the argument but also feel that facebook provides a space for you to connect to people outside your temporal zone.moreover there is an audience on facebook willing to read what you write i.e poems,short stories,e.t.c.the dalit poet meena kandasamy uses facebook to showcase her talent to a wider audience.also ,because your friends list contains people you know,however vaguely,there is opportunity for social interaction.but yes,it is trivial and self serving at times.Relativity.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00061209726672557795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693245947215942449.post-1420784977865468662010-11-20T20:36:41.903-08:002010-11-20T20:36:41.903-08:00My view of the world is different because I think ...My view of the world is different because I think niche cultures are very significant in terms of survival strategies, and meaningful bonds of love and friendship do exist. I think Novels and Films often play on the worst case scenario, and the mitigating factors in the narrative are always the desire to be different from the crowd.I think your essay is excellent sociology, and Promethean focusses on that!Welcome to Sociology and the generalising principle.....Susan Visvanathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01402094861281674429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693245947215942449.post-66275312383182719942010-11-18T10:15:55.200-08:002010-11-18T10:15:55.200-08:00This is spot on and very well said. The old Chines...This is spot on and very well said. The old Chinese curse has come true. We do live in interesting times. There is something dreadfully wrong with the new social order and I thought I was just batty. I just can't get that keyed up by what someone else is watching on the idiot box or eating or thinking every minute of the day. I have not seen the movie but have read the book and didn’t think much of the misogynistic portrayals. It is the classical tussle between Apollonian reason and Dionysian destructiveness and pretty much echoes Ruth Benedict’s theory on patterns of culture. And soon this will transmogrify into a newer societal class and be far more appalling and damaging. Stay tuned to the wall…The Prometheanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03011462134705915980noreply@blogger.com