Para quienes interesa saber de qué manera el internet está cambiando la forma de relacionarnos: aquí un análisis muy completo de lo que es el “like”, que comenzó como una forma de facilitar el sentido de pertenencia y participación en internet, pero a niveles aterradoramentre elementales y enajenantes.
Hoy esto ha llegado al grado de decir que el que no tiene “likes” es un looser, y el que tiene muchos, una persona influyente.
¿No hay mas opciones o formas de interactuar que eso? Muy triste…
The Insidious Evils of ‘Like’ Culture
Once, there was something called a point of view. And, after much strife and conflict, it eventually became a commonly held idea in some parts of the world that people were entitled to their own points of view.
Unfortunately, this idea is becoming an anachronism. When the Internet first came into public use, it was hailed as a liberation from conformity, a floating world ruled by passion, creativity, innovation and freedom of information. When it was hijacked first by advertising and then by commerce, it seemed like it had been fully co-opted and brought into line with human greed and ambition.
But there was one other element of human nature that the Internet still needed to conquer: the need to belong. The “like” button began on the website FriendFeed in 2007, appeared on Facebook in 2009, began spreading everywhere from YouTube to Amazon to most major news sites last year, and has now been officially embraced by Google as the agreeable, supportive and more status-conscious “+1.” As a result, we can now search not just for information, merchandise and kitten videos on the Internet, but for approval…
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