Is There Really an End?

It is crystal clear that we’re living in the vocal point of social media. We as a generation of echo boomers are showered with the use of social media. How many times do you see people around you walking while looking directly at their phones? Texting, Instagramming, even Skyping with their beloved ones, while crossing the street. It is pretty normal for people nowadays. It will be bizarre if you don’t have Facebook or even Path, if you just met someone, the most frequent question that are being asked after you had a chit chat with them is “What’s your Facebook?”, and so on.

Now the question is, how can we track a global digital culture? I will answer this question in the simplest way. Frankly I would say that there is no answer to it. It is as simple as running in circles, which you can never find the end of the path. Ok, maybe some of the applications that are being offered by social media such as, hashtag, filtration, global footprint and many others are part of the ways in tracking a global digital culture. Nevertheless, in my opinion those ‘ways’ that I have just mentioned before is just not enough. There will always be something new added to the existing information, as well as new questions regarding the particular case, which will trigger people to create new technologies to answer those questions.

Therefore, what so called ‘facilitator’ or ‘application’ to actually track global digital culture nowadays, might not be useful in the future. With this kind of situation, I personally think that the only thing we can do is to adapt with the growth of virtual world, and with that hopefully we can keep up and ‘track’ global digital culture.

“The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyber world: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Farther Away