{"id":2053,"date":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2013\/01\/12\/identity-and-relationships-on-social-networking-sites\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"identity-and-relationships-on-social-networking-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2013\/01\/12\/identity-and-relationships-on-social-networking-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity and Relationships on Social Networking Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is the intermediation of identity and presentation, that is so predominant on Facebook, being prescribed as confrontational and uncompromising interaction OR is there a discrepancy between the \u201conline\u201d &amp; \u201coffline\u201d self? <\/p>\n<p>How do we identify ourselves and others on Facebook?<br \/>\nDo we alter our identities- for better or worse- as we re-create ourselves online? <\/p>\n<p>Facebook links millions of people, in new spaces. It is changing the way we think, the form of our communities, our very identities. <\/p>\n<p>If Facebook has such a significant influence over users, does it have an influence on how we identify ourselves and other people? <\/p>\n<p>In Heidegger\u2019s essay entitled, \u2018The Question Concerning Technology\u2019, he studies modern technology. He attempts to prepare us for a \u201cfree relationship\u201d with the existence of technology.  However can we have \u201cfree-relationship\u201d social networking sites? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe strange feature of the Facebook friendship raises an immediate question: is it really a \u201cfriendship\u201d at all?\u201d<br \/>\n\u2018From boredom and necessity, man wishes to exist socially.\u2019 Nietzsche<br \/>\n\u201cA genuine friend is someone who loves or likes another person for the sake of that other person.\u201d Aristotle <\/p>\n<p>Taking in Aristotle\u2019s account of friendship would the relationships on Facebook be justified?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sophie Sharp, 2013, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[609,22,123],"tags":[28,286,29],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-609","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-identity","tag-relationships","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}