Extemporize here regarding the emerging qualities of lifestyles lived 60% online. Never mind the far reaches of Second Life, the first one is being shaped by the webcam and mobile broadcasts.
Some people do seem to be living lives as they are chronicling them and which engenders which tends to blur. Are you selecting an action for its merit in your blog, webcast, and other pages-- or are you doing what you would be doing anyway, journaling be damned? And if indeed the journaling is shaping the activities, is that such a bad thing?
Yes, sadly, it can be. People have enjoyed playing mean games primarily for their video impact, victim be damned. Bullying across cyberspace. But one couldn't honestly say prior bullies required the internet to promote their activities-- they were plenty wild with only paper journaling and oral histories traded at pubs and firesides.
But the up-side is quite strong-- living to share one's experience of all the grandeur, tenderness and excitement of life-- might not be a bad idea, if the novel one is crafting treasures friendship and ecology. But then again, even the frantic disordered lives displayed before us can teach us so much. And even spare us some pain I suppose.
I was quite a vicarious friend in my youth. Treasured dramatic friends who expressed their art and went to all their shows. So in cyberspace I could trace hundreds of daring friends and add them to my friend links and bask in the second-hand glory. Kinda think I do it all the time really.
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