maycocksean
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I realize that this might be better placed in Zoo Station, but I'm really interested in discussing the ideas behind the film rather than the movie itself, and I think FYM is a good fit.
(Plus I can't be bothered to have it lost the "latest movie you've seen eleventy-one" thread). Hope the mods agree with me.
I just finished watching the movie Catfish and I was absolutely fascinated. I'm still not sure whether I buy that it's an actual documentary and not a Blair Witch style film, but either way it's a remarkable piece of film-making. Has anyone else seen it?
At any rate it raises the really interesting questions about the online image that we project of ourselves and how real it is. The character Angela in the film, if she's real, created a remarkable false image (including dozens of fake friends on Facebook). (If she's actually an actress, she's a good one because her performance felt very genuine, not a false note about it). It's especially interesting to me because like a lot of you I've spent quite a bit of time in this online community (over five years now), and I find it fascinating to consider how the "real" us and the FYM/Interference us differ, particularly since I feel like I "know" a lot of you, yet wouldn't recognize most of you if I passed you on the street.
So what do you think? Who are we really? Is the online image you project about the same as the "real" you or quite different.
Speaking for myself, I think I come across better online than I do in real life, but I don't know how much of that is intentional cultivation to burnish my image and how much is just a natural byproduct of being able to consider what you say, how you say it, etc.
Discuss friends/strangers!
(Plus I can't be bothered to have it lost the "latest movie you've seen eleventy-one" thread). Hope the mods agree with me.
I just finished watching the movie Catfish and I was absolutely fascinated. I'm still not sure whether I buy that it's an actual documentary and not a Blair Witch style film, but either way it's a remarkable piece of film-making. Has anyone else seen it?
At any rate it raises the really interesting questions about the online image that we project of ourselves and how real it is. The character Angela in the film, if she's real, created a remarkable false image (including dozens of fake friends on Facebook). (If she's actually an actress, she's a good one because her performance felt very genuine, not a false note about it). It's especially interesting to me because like a lot of you I've spent quite a bit of time in this online community (over five years now), and I find it fascinating to consider how the "real" us and the FYM/Interference us differ, particularly since I feel like I "know" a lot of you, yet wouldn't recognize most of you if I passed you on the street.
So what do you think? Who are we really? Is the online image you project about the same as the "real" you or quite different.
Speaking for myself, I think I come across better online than I do in real life, but I don't know how much of that is intentional cultivation to burnish my image and how much is just a natural byproduct of being able to consider what you say, how you say it, etc.
Discuss friends/strangers!