The Facebook shutdown

And what it means to our proxy worlds.

I wanted to send a message to my nephew. A link to a Netflix document. And then I realized: “You can’t. It’s not working” coming from twitter.

And it was a weird feeling. Knowing, that I rely on it so much, and so often and never really realized, that how the world was without it before. That I don’t have other ways of connecting.

That this was just an illusion, of connection with him. A proxy.

How in a sense, all those social media, are a proxy, in one moment, could taken away,

Then the next important point.

Back to twitter. Jack (the creator of twitter) wrote about signal being the real Whatsup or something. And I clicked on the Snowden tweet and there somewhere inside, one guy commented: “Yeah, but there is nobody there.”

And I’ve got an image in my mind. Image of a room, where there is nobody. Just one guy, sitting in a giant room, somewhere there, close to the other side. You know that weird friend, talking about open-source stuff, every time you say, you want to send him something, via google. And the other room, you are comming from, is full of your usual, normal proxy friends.

Like in a game.

And now go on the signal. And call everybody to come there too. You know how calling people to other room is weird. You need to go to them, write them. And make them go there, against their will and all that. It’s weird in virtual world too.

That is the problem, or the first problem of any new social media. I like signal. No pooping here, just noticing this problem. Of any social media. The problem, of empty room.

And you already have a room, or a building of social media. So there is no point of making new, or it’s a really hard fight inside, to make space for another.

Pointing out,

Luke