Suzanna with favicons

Create your name with social media services favicons . Pretty cool site.

I have become a member of LinkedIn, FriendFeed & Twitter the last few days. Today I joined the social network FriendFeed. I have not used Twitter or Friendfeed earlier so this is something different for me. But I have to understand how they work because I read about them all the time, and I will write lots about it.

On my friendlist there were only 1 person that have FriendFeed so I joined The social media Club as a group to find more people. Found lots of interesting feeds in there about my subject. Real time feed is new to me.

In Friendfeed  I have to comment/post something 5 times a day! If not, will they throw me out? I will try this for a few days, then I will just leave it for one dayand see what happens. But seriously.. 5 a day? If I am not allready addicted, I might be soon…

Then I found this link to how Internet see You. You type in your name and it collects data around it and forms you?

So this is me. The red area is ONLINE. Yeah, and that is partly true.

Where am I right now?

Right now I am buzy by planning my lo-fi study 1. It will take place the next few days, if the weather is fine, it will be postponed till next week if it is coming a snowstorm, as they promised. I also read some literature at the moment. I am reading what Airi Lampinen (Finland)  been writing, her focus is on the management of privacy and publicity in social media which is within my area.Will come more about this later.

LO-FI studies
I also have my second lo-fi study ready, and I can not wait for that one. I will tell you all about it when they have started. This study can really give an amazing result. I will gather a group of 10 people that will under 7 days be forbidden to use social media AT ALL. Under this time they have to write down every feeling and so on in a diary. More details will come. Have to run for now.

But I look for people that wants to participate in this study so  please mail me on skourmouli (at) gmail.com!!!

Intro

Social media interest me. The progress of social media and how it has affecting us. It fascinates me. We are adapting, changing with the technology provided for us, without even reflecting  on HOW it affect us, and HOW we are changing with it. We do not reflect over how we have become public from have been private.

I will research this changes, and our privacy and integrity issues. If the social media looks like this now, how will it be in some years from now? If we have gone to the public from private, how public will we be later? How is it affecting us? How do we let it affect us?

Social media has braken down so many boundaries, and opened up so many possibilities, no doubt about it. We can make money on sharing our thoughts by blogging. Everybody can become a photographer or artist or what ever they want by the possibilities of sharing that exist today.

BUT, there is more to it than that, the disadvantages we only read about randomly in the news paper, when people loose their work or people divorce eachother, thanks to the social media today…Anyway.. this is partly what I will blog about under my research the coming weeks. Look at this awesome video. It gives you all the information you need about how HUGE social media has become.