4. 4
Which is a fancy
title for chatting
with you about how
what we share
online has real
impact on our lives
offline.
5. We’ll cover how publicly sharing
information affects:
1. Time Management
2. Self-Esteem
3. Romantic Relationships
4. Our Very Existence
5. Our Future
7. Why in an economy of time do we
spend so much time sharing?
8. We spend our day sharing. Collectively, we upload
35 hours to YouTube every minute. And in that that
very same minute, we upload 135,849 photos to
Facebook. Even if we consider ourselves private
sorts, chances are we are still “Liking” articles,
retelling YouTube skits to friends, and generally
spending our days sharing. But in a world where
time is money, why would we dedicate so much
time to a seemingly non-lucrative activity? What
are the primary scientific reasons we innately feel
compelled to share?
10. 50% of social media users evaluated their
participation in social media as having an overall
negative effect on their lives. But oddly, studies
have found that after we experience something
negative we turn to Facebook to boost our self-
esteem. What is this cycle of sharing we have
gotten into and how is it altering our sense of self?
12. Social media is affecting every stage of courtship.
From discovering things about a potential partner
you typically wouldn't find out until much later in a
relationship to the types of things you share
predicting the odds of you staying in your current
relationship. Even breakups are affected, as social
media makes it harder to leave the past in the
past. What does this mean for the evolution of
relationships? What will it mean in the future to
share “everything” with the one you love?
13. If you go to an event and don’t
take a picture, did it really even
happen?
14. New technologies have made us feel that we need
to constantly be sharing our present moment to be
part of the “inclusive present.” It used to be that
we created a self-narrative, but now we expect
our “friends” to participate in a communal
narrative of our self. What does it mean to define
the present by shared moments? How does that
alter our historic understanding of time? How are
the boundaries between “self” and “others”
changing?
15. Are your sharing habits today
predictive of decisions you’ll make
tomorrow?
16. Trend forecasters follow the way people share
ideas to predict the trends of the future. Can we
look at what we share as individuals to help us
predict our own futures? Can looking into what we
share today, help us anticipate what our tomorrow
will look like?
17. Thoroughly intrigued?
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