Comments on: I’m not narcisitic, you’re eavesdropping http://librarianbyday.net/2008/09/23/im-not-narcisitic-youre-eavesdropping/ Bobbi Newman | I'm not that kind of librarian Mon, 20 May 2013 18:54:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Brandi Tuttle http://librarianbyday.net/2008/09/23/im-not-narcisitic-youre-eavesdropping/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Brandi Tuttle Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:23:28 +0000 http://librarianbyday.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-191 Clarified and I agree!

]]> By: Bobbi Newman http://librarianbyday.net/2008/09/23/im-not-narcisitic-youre-eavesdropping/comment-page-1/#comment-192 Bobbi Newman Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:08:22 +0000 http://librarianbyday.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-192 Sort of, I’m trying to address the people who discount social web tools because they think the content is narcissist or blather. The important distinction is between communication and broadcasting. It used to be that communication was done one on one, say on the phone. In the days of the party line you could listen to someone’s conversation that doesn’t mean you’re the audience. But now social tools allow us to broadcast our communication. Because we’ve learned, historically that anything broadcast (think TV, radio) was aimed as us. The new web is different, communication can be broadcast now. So just because something is being broadcast doesn’t mean it’s being aimed at you. So you can’t really say someone is being narcissist by blogging about their lives, they are just have the same communication they might have had on the telephone with a friend in the past in the new media, which is broadcasting, allowing them have the same conversation with more friends at once.

Now should or shouldn’t you read it is an whole different issue as is should or shouldn’t you use broadcast tools (blogs, myspace, facebook etc) to communicate with your friends, when it’s so easy for anyone to “overhear” what you’re saying.

]]> By: Brandi Tuttle http://librarianbyday.net/2008/09/23/im-not-narcisitic-youre-eavesdropping/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Brandi Tuttle Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:31:46 +0000 http://librarianbyday.wordpress.com/?p=401#comment-193 I think that if you put it out there, not protected by anything, then it’s free for anyone to read. You may not be the intended audience but who cares? :) If you don’t want to share it, don’t put it online!! I think of it like reading someone’s graffiti or yard signs. But it seems like you equate it with reading someone’s postcards, is that right?

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