Why come you have no MySpace?
Among the many disturbing consequences of the Virginia Tech tragedy may be an increased awareness of people who choose not to have public profiles. Loners. Miscreants off the grid.
Cho Seung-Hui didn't have a Facebook or a MySpace page. Several reports pointed to that as supporting evidence for his status as a "loner." Meanwhile, the news ran riot over MySpace and Facebook profiles, delving into the comments, the pathos, the digital memento mori. Fact, the social networking sites acted as a kind of perfect biosphere for the kudzu-like spread of the news. Everything was prepared for consumption and analysis.
An unfortunate consequence: In the future, those without profiles risk being ostracized. Privacy not as privilege, but as crime.
Hysterical? Maybe. Possible? Yup. If nothing else, at least Mike Judge agrees with me. Hence the scene below, from Idiocracy, in which Luke Wilson is persecuted for being "unscannable!"
MySpace SUCKS!!!
Posted by: Andrea | September 18, 2007 at 03:34 AM
Conformity is never the solution...
Everyone in the clip of the movie you selected were conformists, and worse off for it. Hence the idiocracy of following the crowd: daily/hourly myspace checkers;
"They checked social networking sites at every chance they could, thus neglecting learning and higher education. Going to every movie advertized and spending all their money on beer, and expensive sporting events, which caused them to fail school, and get menial jobs serving the rich in order to support their habit of cheap tricks, and laughs"
As you can see, extremes are never healthy. That loner secluded himself from everyone making it more easier for him to seperate himself from the pain he inflicted on the victims he shot and/or killed. As did the Columbine kids: only they had friends (trenchcoat mafia).
Privacy is not the enemy either.
People failed these shooters. They mostly failed themselves, and wanted to bring as many people down with them as possible. Youth in its most apparent ignorance: thinking they had all the answers.
How sad...
Posted by: Cesar | November 13, 2008 at 07:04 PM