"The first thing I want to know is why, apparently, people on DB don’t feel exposed, vulnerable, embarrassingly narcissistic. “There was a study done,” Brian says. “They gave people video cameras. Everyone over the age of 25 would turn it outward, and everyone under the age of 25 would turn it inward. This is the first platform that captured this behavior of turning the camera inward. It created a platform for communication around that one behavior. Look at the iPhone 4. It has two cameras—they added one specifically to face inward. And the fact that Steve Jobs, who’s sort of the person who defines what’s acceptable in technology and behavior, put this here? So this behavior is becoming even more acceptable."
(From the same article.)Â The Viral Me: Devin Friedman Investigates the New World of Social Networking: Big Issues: GQ
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vaike said:
yeah the narcissistic element is certainly interesting, but on another level i find it also interesting that peeps are choosing to look ‘inward’ rather than outward - wonder what it all means?
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