Apparently Mark Zuckerberg likes Green Day. I guess that’s “who he is.”
Or, at least according to what’s he’s implying.
It’s a decent video of Mark talking with Robert Scoble about “business” at Facebook, platform technology, isolation, and our “connections.”
Are we truly what we’re connected with? Am I the “sum” of my social networking profiles? I’d hope not.
I think there’s a lot in here though, and a yet-to-be-published book I just finished reading (and giving a very positive review and endorsement) touches on it a great deal.
It’s definitely a conversation that must be had.
[HT: TonySteward]
I wonder how similar that book is to Dwight Friesen's new book, "Thy Kingdom Connected"?
interesting…
That was a sweet helicopter flying in the background.
yeah, those guys have fun.
makes me feel better about working out of my basement
John, I don't interpret what Zuckerberg said as diminishing our identities or our "being," but rather, I think he's simply re-stating a classic postmodern "truth": We are culturally situated people. My identity does not exist outside of relationship to these other people (the "social graph") or these things with which I've self-identified (the things I'm a "fan" of or am "following" on Twitter, etc.). Postmodernism helps us see how culturally/socially situated we are. The social graph helps us to see our location in relationship to other people and things (companies/brands/etc.).