Twitter<\/a> if they had a strong sense of identity.”<\/p>\n“We are the most narcissistic age ever,” agrees Dr David Lewis, a cognitive neuropsychologist and director of research based at the University of Sussex. “Using Twitter suggests a level of insecurity whereby, unless people recognize you, you cease to exist. It may stave off insecurity in the short term, but it won’t cure it.”<\/p>\n
For Alain de Botton, author of Status Anxiety<\/em> and the forthcoming The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work<\/em>, Twitter represents “a way of making sure you are permanently connected to somebody and somebody is permanently connected to you, proving that you are alive. It’s like when a parent goes into a child’s room to check the child is still breathing. It is a giant baby monitor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\nIs this blog just me shouting at a wall that bounces my voice back to me? I mean, seriously, nobody reads it except my wife and a handful of friends on occasion. I tell myself it’s a scrapbook of ideas, a memory tool really. So much that I would like to remember, I forget entirely if I don’t write it down. I retain the blurry image that I can’t put my finger on. With this blog though, I CAN put my finger on it, at least part of the time.<\/p>\n
I wonder, is it PART of my identity, or a compensation for my lack of identity? What about your blog?<\/p>\n
Answer: Sometimes a little of both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This from a recent Times article that explored why people Twitter. I would include Facebook status updates and even a lot of blogging as being relevant to this passage: The clinical psychologist Oliver James has his reservations. “Twittering stems from a lack of identity. It’s a constant update of who you are, what you are, … <\/p>\n
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