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According to all these expensive college classes I’m taking, and all these “inspirational” blogging seminars I’m attending, and these published articles and books I’m reading, social networking is all about forming a new conversation. It’s about the ability to use the Internet and the hyper-communication abilities that the internet gives us to impact change on a global scale more quickly than if the Internet did not exist. While there is a common black and white misconception about the Internet and its uses being tossed around by casual philosophers, it is hard to determine how much power the Internet has on how we as humans function as a group. Some people see that the Internet is killing the need for a social society, while others claim that it is revolutionizing it.
I myself believe that I will someday be able to use the Internet to promote my writing on a much more global (and cheaper) scale than I would have been able to if I relied on publishing companies and book agents.
But it is possible to have fun with the Internet as well.
Before I graduate in five weeks (the countdown continues) I want to participate in a flash mob. UAlbany’s Fountain Day is the perfect venue for this. All I need is enough people to agree that when the bell tower strikes a certain hour that they are going to fall to the floor and play dead. The easiest way to get the most people to participate in such an ordeal would be to create a group on Facebook. But if the whole point of a flash mob is underground cult surprise, can’t advertising ruin it?
And here we come to my conundrum. Either way, flash mobs are inspiring and just a fun example of the power of groups that still exists.