Does myspace create a new place of post-modernity in which identities can multiply, or does it in fact do the opposite, creating rigid definitions of the self in which one is often compared to a greater societal archetype?

What does it say about a society in which people spend so much damn time on myspace? does it show an abcess? or is this actually something valuable? does it displace the trivial or does it displace meaningful, more effortful activity for activity that is crack-i-licious in its addictiveness and essentially hollow?

Myspace is a fragment representing the whole. The Internet is a new medium of digital communication where people can create a unique message for the masses.

This medium is limited by knowledge and hence the Internet slogan 'information is power'.

How ever, there is little difference between Internet and other forms of medium at present as the Internet is barely 'interactive'. At the base of interactivity is the human action of selecting links to direct information. Yet, does one not select information to read in a book by looking through the index? Or does not one select what to view on television by changing the channel?

There fore, the Internet is merely a collection of existing media and there fore albeit a new form of communication yet built on existing content.

This is not post-modernist in any sense of the true notion of the word as post-modernism is usually only heard of by gay rights activists because of the idea of rejecting the traditional roots of man which basically shame homosexuals and damn them there by giving them good reason to reject the traditional if they wish to follow a lifestyle of degradation.

How ever, myspace = post-modernism = delineation of self? Nah, thats too gay for me.

you're just turning it into a personal attack, silvine.

mixing parts of reasoned truth inwith parts of your own subjective view doesn't make much sense.

i also have my own theories about gay people but the fact remains that these are best left in my own head or to discussions with those people i talk to intimately. as some girl licking clit or some guy getting a big, fat cock up his arse, it really doesn't concern me. i'm not also sure that post-modernism is more attractive to gay people than any other group of people - i like some post-modernist ideas myself, am i gay?

I like to research every thing on wikipedia so I do not bring any personal assumptions to the arguement.

Silvine

he's just so stupid it's funny at this point. he's like a walking anti-drug advertisement.

"hey kids! want your brain to melt and to turn into a schitzophrenic pile of stupidity? Try doing a shitload of acid until you think you are a magical prophet."

Rise Above: The Anti-Drug.