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mediated personalities
A lot of people have been talking about how they use thier journals, recently. About meaningful content vs memes vs bland recountings of daily events.
When his blog was active, William Gibson talked a fair bit about mediated personalities - how sometimes he was surprised to encounter the mediated William Gibson, and how different that person was from the self he usually related to.
What we do when we write in our livejournals is creating a mediated personality of our own - we shape how our readers see us when we pick and choose the thoughts and events in our life to write about.
If you ever thought telepathy would solve the world's problems, look at livejournal more closely - when people can read what other people are thinking, what's bugging them, etc., we tend to get Drama. As LJers progress, many of them begin to more heavily censor thier journals to avoid Drama. This tends to mean posting less about intensely personal feelings and experiences, which in turn mediates the personality that readers experience.
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curgoth is not exactly the same person I think of as me.
(this may be what happens when I start reading more non-fiction humanities books, and drinking caffeine.)
When his blog was active, William Gibson talked a fair bit about mediated personalities - how sometimes he was surprised to encounter the mediated William Gibson, and how different that person was from the self he usually related to.
What we do when we write in our livejournals is creating a mediated personality of our own - we shape how our readers see us when we pick and choose the thoughts and events in our life to write about.
If you ever thought telepathy would solve the world's problems, look at livejournal more closely - when people can read what other people are thinking, what's bugging them, etc., we tend to get Drama. As LJers progress, many of them begin to more heavily censor thier journals to avoid Drama. This tends to mean posting less about intensely personal feelings and experiences, which in turn mediates the personality that readers experience.
The person you all know as
curgoth is not exactly the same person I think of as me. (this may be what happens when I start reading more non-fiction humanities books, and drinking caffeine.)
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A good point. When I read about someone else's trauma, that response (*hugs*) seems appropriate... like by not saying anything, I'm not acknowledging/sympathizing with them.
people are more likely to comment on 'extremes'
This certainly seems to be the case in most of my posts. Though within a certain range -- often my "real" posts, the hard-hitting introspection -- they garner almost *no* response. Intriguing.
I think it's when someone else's buttons are hit, regardless if the post in question has anything to do with them. Button-hitting is pretty easy in a textual medium, too.