http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/12/09/facebook-remembers/ We live in a cyborg society. Technology has infiltrated the most fundamental aspects of our lives: social organization, the body, even our self-concepts. This blog chronicles our new, augmented reality. Thu, 09 Apr 2015 17:52:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/12/09/facebook-remembers/#comment-545340 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 01:33:25 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=19479#comment-545340 Great post, Jenny. I think Facebook /does/ remind us by keeping a record; however at the same time its instantaneous-ness (as simulated by the rolling news feed) creates a fleeting memory for most users. Do many users spend time examining their own feed past a certain period of time? There’s also ‘whitewalling’, something that younger people are doing in recent times. If anything I feel like Facebook encourages a sense of irresponsibility with posts (see: new rise of anti-intellectualism/satire convincingly disguised as ‘real’) due to how it maintains that split personality (memory bank vs. fleeting temporality).

]]> http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2014/12/09/facebook-remembers/#comment-537343 Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:55:34 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/?p=19479#comment-537343 […] Facebook announced this week that it will add a new search feature to the platform. This search feature will, for the first time, allow users to type in keywords and bring up specific network content. Previously, keyword searches lead to pages and advertisements. Now, it will bring up images and text from users’ News Feeds. Although search results currently include only content shared with users by their Friends, I imagine including public posts in the results will be a forthcoming next step.  […]

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