Facebook destroys the present by making it permanent. This sounds self-contradictory and counterintuitive; after all, the sharing culture that is practiced on Facebook (and other social networks) creates a situation in which more and more people document and present one another with virtually everything they experience. But precisely this compulsion to communicate prevents them from actually experiencing the present. The more or less reflexive, more or less unreflecting documentation of the lived moment replaces its real experience. By archiving the present we simultaneously negate, ignore, annul it; basically, we fall out of time precisely because we are permanently capturing it.
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Facebook Society
Roberto Simanowski
Facebook destroys the present by making it permanent. This sounds self-contradictory and counterintuitive; after all, the sharing culture that is practiced on Facebook (and other social networks) creates a situation in which more and more people document and present one another with virtually everything they experience. But precisely this compulsion to communicate prevents them from actually experiencing the present. The more or less reflexive, more or less unreflecting documentation of the lived moment replaces its real experience. By archiving the present we simultaneously negate, ignore, annul it; basically, we fall out of time precisely because we are permanently capturing it.
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