Some thoughts on Facebook...
In years to come, will my generation have Facebook reunions, when we'll get together with all the other Facebook Alumni and remember about the good old days when we "poked" each other and sent each other goldfish?
If we do ever have reunions, where will they be? Online, or in some actual physical space somewhere?
When we're elderly and retired, will we have online communities instead of Probus, Rotary and Lions?
When people put full-length avatars of themselves in bikinis, do they ever think that complete strangers might be seeing them? Do they want complete strangers seeing them?
Are they really photos of them in bikinis?
Maybe I should have a picture of someone in a bikini as my avatar and see if anyone notices.
When I request Plato Son of Ariston as my friend, who is administrating his account?
Is Plato Son of Ariston also administering an account for Socrates, when he carries out both sides of an online dialogue?
Are the conversations on Plato's wall ideals, or just shadows?
Just some important issues that Facebook brings up. We need to be engaging thoughtfully with the culture, after all.
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