Looking over the tools on Flickr I am astounded at the sheer number of them and how many cater to the ego of the user. Make a movie poster starring yourself! Create a trading card of yourself! Design a magazine cover featuring yourself! Make yourself a STAR! A SUPERSTAR! Meanwhile life goes on all around you. Stroking the ego of the potential consumer is certainly the path to getting more buy-in on newer technologly and systems. Always bigger and faster and better and more sophisticated and more expensive and oh by the way you need to replace everything you bought last year. There is a Circle of Life going on here that has to do with materialism and it's close cousin- consumerism. Up and up goes the spiral of technology until - the lights go out.
This is a bit extreme and I will admit that some of the tools promote positive communication among mostly priviledge people (those who can afford the technology and the time to interact with all these features) but it is all a bit overwhelming isn't it? Oh well, have fun and don't think about life passing you by.
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hehehe.
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