To many the idea of myth means something is completely fake, that is not real and that it does not exist. Having just watched (The Notebook2004) one of my favourite quotes from it is "You know what they say, science only goes so far then comes God" Which of course could be anything. What ever we believe in. Meaning that there still is some wonder in the world Google can't find and solve every problem we have.
So as this blog is not about religion but the wonders and disasters of the social world, it must begin. People thousands of years ago used art to tell stories, leave memories for future generations to learn and continue the teaching. Tribes being hundreds if not thousands of miles apart dialect was different, not one tribe having the same language. They still sang to send messages to other tribes to tell them what was about to happen and what had happened, if there was a festival or a pivotal death in the tribes. The 'Songlines' as they are called have been recreated and sung by famous Aboriginal singers such as 'Gurrumul' and Bruce Chatwin the same name used for an Aboriginal music magazine.
To many the joys of Facebook or Twitter is that they can find out what old friends are up to. Join group and add pictures to show people what you have been up too. The information that is put into these sites is at times an unofficial autobiography.
"The popularity of these pages demonstrates that they clearly address—and create—user demands for social connection and self-performance, enabling individuals to participate in 'everyday autobiography'" (Smith and Watson, Gettting 3).
Blogs are places for people to vent what is happening in their lives, Twitter they can follow or stalk the Stars, Instagram is the place for the photos, not that I know how to use it... and Facebook, the place that everyone goes to send messages and catch up.
The internet is an amazing thing, technology is an amazing thing, but to the point that it removes people from their families and lives. When Zuckerburg got the ball rolling people saw what they could do with the internet, how it could help them shape their work or business. Hayles (1-24) theory of Posthuman Auto/Biography. The internet is slowly getting bigger while the world is getting smaller. There are some people that would still like to have some mystery in the world, so they don't ask Google everything. Not knowing things can be, nice the possibility that something could be something else. Just keeping it that way.
In the past sending a letter was the way to communicate to someone, a love letter, a letter to make sure someone was healthy or an invitation somewhere. But now the only letters that people that people receive are bills and the odd thank you letter.
Zuckerburg states that "if you look at someone's Profile, almost all the fields that define them are in some way commercial. It's part of our identity as people that we like something, but it also has commercial value" (qtd. in Kirkpatrick 260).
Although times do change the amount is to the point that there will be no need for paper soon.
References:
Smith and Watson, Gettting3:
Smith, Sidonie, and Julia Watson, eds. Getting a Life: Everyday Uses of Autobiography. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1996. Print.
Hayles:
Hayles, N. Katherine. How We Became Posthuman. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1999. Print.
Kirkpatrick:
Kirkpatrick, David. The Facebook Effect. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010. Print
The Notebook(Film,2004)
quote: "You know what they say, Science goes only so far then comes god"
John Atkinson,
http://wronghands1.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/vintage-social-networking/
The essence of paragraph 2 in your blog is that the ancestors of this land would use their songlines to convey messages of tribal interaction and historic events back to the beginning of time. In exploring this issue in more depth and focusing on the nature and reason for songlines, for example where in the land you currently are; a comparison can be made with today's technology as stated by McNeill, "For instance, one can now broadcast where one is and with whom" (2012.P 109)but its as though technological advancement never sees itself as a result of historical events.
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