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A Second Life
The Future of Facebook Monitoring
By Brittney Hatrack
In 1968, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey came out, predicting a future of artificial intelligence over human emotionality. HAL 9000, a computer, takes control of the spaceship until he is finally destroyed despite his “emotional” pleadings. This future isn’t in 2001, it may not be in 2033, and actually, it may never happen. However, the basis of the internet becoming a stigma for smarter and smarter technology is very real. As part of the internet generation, we’ve seen the advancement of cell phones with changeable faceplates to touch screen phones that have more specific features then our modern computers. And we’ve seen those computers stem from slow machines with dull features to completely interactive worlds that we live in. The computer is changing, and with the computer changing, comes the advancement of the people using the computer. In our Digital Ethnography, social networking sites like Facebook have become tools for people, more specifically sororities, to “attack” and turn in others for inappropriate behavior. In the future, this will be modified to undiscovered levels. With the ever changing times, the computer will face new frontiers in terms of (1) social networking sites and how they’re used and (2) what internet rules will be like in the future for sororities and college students in general. It brings up the question, what future will computers, social networking sites and Greek students have together?
Facebook is a basic, but extremely popular website. There’s a dropdown menu, they have multiple layers of communication, they even have games. However, this is nothing to what social networking sites will become in the future. As we’ve seen throughout the past decade, social networking sites don’t last and according to authors like Daniel Solove, people will just keep moving onto the next big thing. The internet’s users enjoy gossip and demand free speech and social networking sites promote both of these. I predict that eventually, the next big social networking site in 2033 will no longer be a website, but a virtual world that “students” live in. It will be a mix of “second life” and Facebook, lets just call it “Futurebook.” The ideas of gossip, shaming and free speech with collide with actual human beings online. iChat is a form available right now of chatting online; however, you can use cameras to view and hear the person you’re talking to. This “picture” form of talking will overtake Futurebook and students (they still want to be elite) will virtually interact, post these conversations, post videos and still continue the same practices as they do now.
The battle of the networks as described in Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It will finally come to an end. Apple will take over Futurebook and it’ll be the start of the iFuture, the future of the consumer. Anything and everything will be broadcasted to the world over Futurebook. The life of college students will be connected via the internet to databases, forums and idealized chat rooms for a range of topics. The idea of polarization will hit an extreme because college students will be sectioned off into separate chat rooms and will further the presence of conforming to group ideals. There will be no typing which eliminates the mistakes of not saying what you mean, it will be a medium of face-to-face interaction between agreeing young minds. Screens filled with the faces, ideas, pictures and voices of students will physically be interacting with each other – there will be no gap between computers. The consumers will all be one on Futurebook; they will all be socially normed.
Futurebook will become a means to an end of privacy for the youth generation. The “Info” section of Futurebook won’t be information you provide, but it will be placed on you by what you rooms you link into or tabs you follow. Much like Amazon.com finding “other things you might like,” Futurebook will conform you into the groups you say you’re a part of; whether you like it or not. So as a sorority member, you’d automatically be siphoned off into the ideals, norms and rules of members like you. So for Virginia Tech’s Greek life, they’d have constant access to the private information you choose to post and that you subconsciously post too because everyone is in the same “network.” The draw of the website will be the same as it is now, that students will want to network so badly and get all the positive features that the lack of privacy and obvious conforming will just be something they deal with.
As for the VT Judicial Board, the cup rule would still be in effect; however, it would extend to boundaries of scanning by computer programs. Software will find red cups, bottles, drugs or certain body positions and file them into the hands of “authorities.” Those authorities will make judgments on whether the pictures constitute action or are innocent enough to be placed back without reprimand. It will be similar to Virginia Tech’s ability to remove bandwidth on campus for those illegally downloading music. Greek life will bypass Solove’s ideas of privacy and free speech, by relating that members of the Greek community made their own choice to become part of an elite group that they knew were monitored. In Solove’s book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet, there is a section on accountability. In this, he says, “People of rank and fortune are generally going to be noticed no matter where they are” (140). This correlates because by being a member of the Greek community, you make yourself elite. In the future, this means that these “ranked” people will be held more accountable for their actions. Therefore, the filtering will have similar or harsher consequences because everyone is aware of what the actions will cause.
Futurebook is a future of negative outlooks on conformity, social norming and like-minded interaction. The internet will become more expansive in a broad sense, but infinitely more introverted when it comes to personal choices and individuality. Although communication and interaction will increase to new levels, the things they’re discussing will become smaller and smaller. The year 2033 is the iFuture and with blossoming connectivity of consumers, the internet community will expand to new depths and interesting divisions.
Solove, Daniel. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, rumor and privacy on the internet. London: Yale University Press, 2007.
Zittrain, Jonathan. The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. London: Yale University Press, 2008.
By Brittney Hatrack
In 1968, the film 2001: A Space Odyssey came out, predicting a future of artificial intelligence over human emotionality. HAL 9000, a computer, takes control of the spaceship until he is finally destroyed despite his “emotional” pleadings. This future isn’t in 2001, it may not be in 2033, and actually, it may never happen. However, the basis of the internet becoming a stigma for smarter and smarter technology is very real. As part of the internet generation, we’ve seen the advancement of cell phones with changeable faceplates to touch screen phones that have more specific features then our modern computers. And we’ve seen those computers stem from slow machines with dull features to completely interactive worlds that we live in. The computer is changing, and with the computer changing, comes the advancement of the people using the computer. In our Digital Ethnography, social networking sites like Facebook have become tools for people, more specifically sororities, to “attack” and turn in others for inappropriate behavior. In the future, this will be modified to undiscovered levels. With the ever changing times, the computer will face new frontiers in terms of (1) social networking sites and how they’re used and (2) what internet rules will be like in the future for sororities and college students in general. It brings up the question, what future will computers, social networking sites and Greek students have together?
Facebook is a basic, but extremely popular website. There’s a dropdown menu, they have multiple layers of communication, they even have games. However, this is nothing to what social networking sites will become in the future. As we’ve seen throughout the past decade, social networking sites don’t last and according to authors like Daniel Solove, people will just keep moving onto the next big thing. The internet’s users enjoy gossip and demand free speech and social networking sites promote both of these. I predict that eventually, the next big social networking site in 2033 will no longer be a website, but a virtual world that “students” live in. It will be a mix of “second life” and Facebook, lets just call it “Futurebook.” The ideas of gossip, shaming and free speech with collide with actual human beings online. iChat is a form available right now of chatting online; however, you can use cameras to view and hear the person you’re talking to. This “picture” form of talking will overtake Futurebook and students (they still want to be elite) will virtually interact, post these conversations, post videos and still continue the same practices as they do now.
The battle of the networks as described in Zittrain’s The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It will finally come to an end. Apple will take over Futurebook and it’ll be the start of the iFuture, the future of the consumer. Anything and everything will be broadcasted to the world over Futurebook. The life of college students will be connected via the internet to databases, forums and idealized chat rooms for a range of topics. The idea of polarization will hit an extreme because college students will be sectioned off into separate chat rooms and will further the presence of conforming to group ideals. There will be no typing which eliminates the mistakes of not saying what you mean, it will be a medium of face-to-face interaction between agreeing young minds. Screens filled with the faces, ideas, pictures and voices of students will physically be interacting with each other – there will be no gap between computers. The consumers will all be one on Futurebook; they will all be socially normed.
Futurebook will become a means to an end of privacy for the youth generation. The “Info” section of Futurebook won’t be information you provide, but it will be placed on you by what you rooms you link into or tabs you follow. Much like Amazon.com finding “other things you might like,” Futurebook will conform you into the groups you say you’re a part of; whether you like it or not. So as a sorority member, you’d automatically be siphoned off into the ideals, norms and rules of members like you. So for Virginia Tech’s Greek life, they’d have constant access to the private information you choose to post and that you subconsciously post too because everyone is in the same “network.” The draw of the website will be the same as it is now, that students will want to network so badly and get all the positive features that the lack of privacy and obvious conforming will just be something they deal with.
As for the VT Judicial Board, the cup rule would still be in effect; however, it would extend to boundaries of scanning by computer programs. Software will find red cups, bottles, drugs or certain body positions and file them into the hands of “authorities.” Those authorities will make judgments on whether the pictures constitute action or are innocent enough to be placed back without reprimand. It will be similar to Virginia Tech’s ability to remove bandwidth on campus for those illegally downloading music. Greek life will bypass Solove’s ideas of privacy and free speech, by relating that members of the Greek community made their own choice to become part of an elite group that they knew were monitored. In Solove’s book, The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the Internet, there is a section on accountability. In this, he says, “People of rank and fortune are generally going to be noticed no matter where they are” (140). This correlates because by being a member of the Greek community, you make yourself elite. In the future, this means that these “ranked” people will be held more accountable for their actions. Therefore, the filtering will have similar or harsher consequences because everyone is aware of what the actions will cause.
Futurebook is a future of negative outlooks on conformity, social norming and like-minded interaction. The internet will become more expansive in a broad sense, but infinitely more introverted when it comes to personal choices and individuality. Although communication and interaction will increase to new levels, the things they’re discussing will become smaller and smaller. The year 2033 is the iFuture and with blossoming connectivity of consumers, the internet community will expand to new depths and interesting divisions.
Solove, Daniel. The Future of Reputation: Gossip, rumor and privacy on the internet. London: Yale University Press, 2007.
Zittrain, Jonathan. The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It. London: Yale University Press, 2008.
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