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“Want me to talk about how much I hate Facebook?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For Exercise 3 I interviewed my mother, Maureen. \u00a0Here is the audio recording:<\/p>\n

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My mother worked for IBM from 1982 to 1998, then at AT&T until present day. She started as a secretary for the creators of the internal IBM network, the Corporate Consolidated Data Network. Then she worked for the helpdesk of that network. Since then she has been managing corporate accounts and was a salesperson for a short while. She started out when users had to open up a new Terminal for each application they ran, and personal computers were a security risk to the emerging corporate network. She now will often work from home, since few of her coworkers are local and the office space is underused. She can now remote connect to the corporate network from her laptop, cellphone or tablet.<\/p>\n

While interviewing my mother if found that she had some opinions about communications technology that aligned with those of Sherry Turkle. She really prefers to talk to someone over the phone so she can hear their tone. She works with technology but as a manager or salesperson she finds it important to connect or understand the person on the other end of the communication in order to complete the job. She feels frustrated about Facebook communications, because it is impossible to tell the tone or subtext in a written comment on someone\u2019s wall or photo. She is also \u201con call\u201d almost around the clock, especially when working with people around the world. I\u2019ve heard her get up at 6 or 7 to make a phone call to the other side of the world where it is long after business hours, and the people on both end of the call are tired and frustrated. She recently purchased a new Bluetooth headset for her cellphone; it\u2019s a headset that can rest around your neck and vibrate when you receive a call. Since it doesn\u2019t need to be in your ear when not in use, it is more comfortable and harder to misplace than her previous devices. Right after she explained it to me is said, \u201c\u2026so it\u2019s a collar?\u201d and she laughed but I knew it slightly changed her opinion on her shiny new device. In Postscript on Societies of Control<\/em> Deleuze perfectly described this device before it even existed. \u201cThe conception of a control mechanism, giving the position of any element within an open environment at any given instant (whether animal in a reserve or a human in a corporation, as with an electric collar), is not necessarily one of science fiction.\u201d She often had conflict with the systems of access that plague the control society. If a technical or network issue prevents her from running the secure programs that connect her to the corporate network, she cannot work. She needs to be logged in to access email and passwords that would allow her to log in to other phone calls or work services. And if the issue arrives, she must either travel into the office to connect physically to the network, or she must turn over control to technical support who have access to administrator privileges on the computer she uses every day. As she mentions in the interview, she spends all of her day on the computer, so she wants to spend her free time offline but often can\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Her primary social media platform is Facebook. She is the third of 8 brothers and sisters who are spread along the East coast from Maine to Virginia. In order to keep up to date with the family, she relies on Facebook and phone calls. Often, a post on Facebook will be the impetus for her to call someone and start a conversation. However Facebook\u2019s gradual increase in advertising content is causing frustration and interferes with the social aspect of the network. As mentioned in both the Theory of Everything and RadioLab podcasts, Facebook and other social media platforms are simultaneously experimenting with and selling this focused access to users. By logging and analyzing the choices made on a screen, they have not only evolved their methods of how users report embarrassing photos but also how they structure their advertising on the page. Rather than the intrusive pop-up ad they mix in advertisements as \u201csuggested posts\u201d along with the standard banner ads on the side of the page.<\/p>\n

So in an effort to catalog and store all the important photos she posts and is tagged in on Facebook, I used IFTTT to link her Facebook to Dropbox. I had her setup her own account on IFTTT in case she wants to modify or add to her recipes, or in the event that she shifts to a new social media platform and wants to automate something in relation to Facebook. She would like it if her family found and moved to a new platform that wasn\u2019t so focused on advertising, or often riddled with negativity. Hopefully this automated download process will assist in that by storing her photos in an alternate location so the leave from Facebook can be swift and easy.<\/p>\n

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