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By: Alicia

Alicia — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:31:50 +0000

Oh Asi, what a brilliant post. What can I say? I am such a passionate social psychologist….. The other is so present in this dialogical act of identity construction….What is interesting is how despite a plurality of others (facebook friends) throuch which one makes sense of the self, having a limited number of characters helps you make a choice amongst the multiplicity of emotions, self-constructions and so on….I guess that what helps is (as our dear Sandra would say) our basic human need for some stability and sense of coherence…

By: asi

asi — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 08:07:32 +0000

Cheers for your comments

Jonathan

You are absolutely right. I guess that it is always situational and contextual. And to a large extant premeditated.

My point is that the boundaries between the internal and external are increasingly blurred and in some cases the ‘new externals’ i.e. our electronic utterances as you nicely put it affect our inner-dialouge.

By: Charles Edward Frith

Charles Edward Frith — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:44:30 +0000

Great post Asi. I’ve been saying for a while that 2.0 is slowly rewiring my brain. I can’t vouch for my noodle beforehand so the jury is out on whether its irreversibly damaged or even improved.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:44:32 +0000

Your on to something here Asi, but for me it all depends on how premeditated you are whilst using micro-blogging tools.

Personally speaking, my external utterances, be they verbal or electronic are always premeditated to some extent whereas my internal dialogue operates on a more spontaneous level. I suppose it depends on how trusting you are of your ‘hive mind’. Much of the time our internal dialogue remains internal for very good reasons - as the Seinfeld clip demonstrates so perfectly!

By: Ittai

Ittai — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:22:43 +0000

Great post. Very interesting insight.

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 15:11:10 +0000

How is this different from, say, seeing a fancy sports car and thinking “I must tell the guys down the pub about that”..?

By: Edith

Edith — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:44:17 +0000

I’ve encountered a version of this for years - originally it was when I’d first started using livejournal and would find myself thinking about events in terms of how I’d write a lj post about them, even if I never actually got round to writing it!

I don’t twitter but do sometimes get the same thought process with Facebook statuses, although finding out that a couple of contacts have subscribed to receive my statuses has actually lessened my updates (and as a result lessened me framing my thoughts in terms of updates) because I don’t like the idea of ‘bothering’ them with mundane status changes!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:41:40 +0000

Hello mate. Nice stuff.
I’m not quite clever enough to add much to this. Although I did touch very lightly on a related topic a while ago.
http://nowincolour.blogspot.com/2008/02/who-do-you-blog-to.html

Faris has touched on the idea of ‘collective perception’ before in relation to our understanding of brand. But I’ll leave you two to thrash it out. My head might explode.