I read an article online today. If you care to do the same: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/06/opinion/06mathias.html
It made me think: Do we really communicate when we use Facebook or MySpace? It seems like we do. It would appear that there's a dialogue between people, that it is conversational. On person posts a wall post, then someone else does the same back. But is there real interaction?
Maybe not. Maybe we just post on people's walls so that we'll look cool ourselves. How many birthday greetings can you read, really? Is there any value in reading what somebody ate for dinner last night?
Facebook and MySpace make people stars in their own little worlds. That world is a world of voyeurs. People aren't speaking to each other; they're speaking at one another. I would say that the majority of the time a spend on Facebook, I'm just looking at other people's pages - anonymously - and absorbing what they have posted to their page. It's not interaction. It's entertainment. It's like TV, only the people on the screen you know and have met in your life.
It may be that Facebook is another way to hide from social interaction.
Anyway, there are 6 days left to enter Knight News Challenge. Your idea could be the solution to the problem I've detailed above. And it could be worth a lot of moolah, too. http://www.newschallenge.org
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