{"id":370,"date":"2015-02-05T19:14:26","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=370"},"modified":"2015-02-18T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T18:36:37","slug":"social-breach-2-facebook-statuses-out-of-my-incoming-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/SS15\/?p=370","title":{"rendered":"Exercise #2: Facebook statuses out of my incoming texts."},"content":{"rendered":"

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For this weeks social breach experiment, I decided to address a topic\u00a0I have been thinking a lot about lately; which is playing with what we perceive as\u00a0private and public space on our devices. \u00a0To do this, I made Facebook statuses of my incoming text messages. \u00a0Throughout the day I would make statuses that only said the text I was receiving, without including the name of the person sending the message.<\/p>\n

I had a few expectations when I started this experiment.\u00a0 My main expectation and worry was that the people sending me the texts would see them and be uncomfortable.\u00a0 While this did happen, it was actually other people that reacted strongly to my sudden strange behavior on Facebook.\u00a0 I thought maybe a few people would “like” or comment the statuses, but I didn’t expect just how much people would react.\u00a0 A lot of people commented, asking if I understood how to use Facebook and some messaged me to let me know something strange was going on.\u00a0 I was surprised to see that people I hadn’t talked to in months, and one in particular I hadn’t spoken to since high school, went out of their way to ask if I knew what was happening.\u00a0 In lighter reactions, people that knew me better knew I was doing some sort of experiment and they had fun trying to figure out what the system was.<\/p>\n

When I think about why I expected the people who were acting sending the text messages to react the strongest, it’s because there is some unsaid rules we have put up regarding text messages.\u00a0 In some way, I believe we expect them to be private, despite knowing that we are sending them to a device that is not our own.\u00a0 I find the idea of “unsaid rules” to be interesting though, because at times you don’t even know you are living by them.\u00a0 In “The Oversharer” by christian Sandvig, he discusses how this is addressed in Harold Garfinkels social experiment “the boarder” (or the lodger).\u00a0 In this experiment Harold Garfinkel (a sociologist and college professor) assigned his students to go home to their families and act with the manners they would as if they were in someone else’s home.\u00a0 The result was that family members were extremely taken back and concerned that something was wrong with the students.\u00a0 I enjoyed Garfinkels view that a good way to study how we act in every day life is to de-familiarize ourselves with it.<\/p>\n

The Critical Engineering Manifesto has also influenced my reflection on this experiment.\u00a0 The manifesto expresses the importance of engineers looking at developing technology objectively and questions ethical issues behind any platform that creates a rich user experience or user dependence on it.\u00a0 In relation to the way my experiment exposed certain expectations we have of social media, I think the manifesto addresses a valid point that we should not blindly accept any interface as the way things must be, just because it is the way they are now.\u00a0 I believe it is important to consider that the use of our devices now serves as a permanent trace of our interactions.\u00a0 I think for many of us this is hard to accurately imagine.\u00a0 The Critical Engineering Manifesto urges the importance of considering how our devices affect our social interactions and communication.<\/p>\n

Overall, I found this exercise interesting and revealing about how people feel about what should be posted.\u00a0 I also found it telling on peoples boundaries.\u00a0 When people I was not close to were commenting and messaging me about what was going on I couldn’t help but wonder what reason these people had to care about what was going on with my profile, and whether or not I would reach out to someone I wasn’t close with had the same thing been happening on theirs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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