As I ponder my life on another birthday... I begin to think about all the events that have happened only a year ago. Never before has the chronological documentation of ones life been so easy to share with so many people (i.e. FaceBook and Twitter). Sharing takes on a new dimension when it lives on the net and so accessible to everyone... globally. In many ways it has changed how we nurture relationships and looks at ourselves.
Back in the day... when you moved away from friends, you would exchange mailing address (street, city and zipcode) and say, "we'll stay in touch". Sure... you exchanged letters for a while, then before you knew it... it would be several months or years until you hear from them again. With today's Web 2.0 tools... the communication is instant and we now have the ability to develop those ties into a personal community or network. Which can be viewed as a snapshot of who we are. If you believe in the old saying "bird of a feather flock together"... then in some way's the people that make up your friends or follow list, are actually a small component of who you are.
By selectively picking and choosing who you friend, they are a part of who and what you identify with (albeit a small component). Somewhere in our lists are the people, events, ideas and dreams of our past, present and future. It would make sense given that we are shaped and molded by the informal (and sometimes formal) learning experiences who have shared in our lives and have made it to our friends list. So... if you want to learn about someone... look at their friends list. With the Library of Congress storing all of our tweets for the future, our lives (and in some ways a small piece of ourselves) have been made immortal by this thing we call the Internet. Okay... before you start rushing off and looking at everyone's friends and follows list to figure out if why they're a Twilight fan, you may want to think about one more thing.
The lists that make us up are encrypted. With one person as the keyholder, the owner. There isn't an algorithm (so far) that has the ability to understand who, what, when, where and how the people that make up your list are relevant to the individual. Just because I follow or have friended someone doesn't mean I subscribe to everything he/she says... but I would like to keep them in my life... even if its only 140 characters at a time.
Thanks for reading.
Sean
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