Social Networking: Fragmentary Blue?
Robert Frost wrote a poem entitled “Fragmentary Blue,” in which he pondered why humanity took such delight in the beautiful blue present in birds, flowers, eyes, etc. He ends the poem by hypothesizing that we view the blue sky as heavenly, and because we cannot reach it, we revel in nature’s heavenly reminder to us through fragmentary blue. Right now, social networking is all fragmentary blue. We express a certain part of ourself on Facebook, Myspace, and others, however, we never really display our whole self, and we limit our ability to network in doing so. There are job networking sites (a plethora of them, focusing on recent grads or 100k+ jobs, etc.), school networking sites, band networking sites, ad infinitum. These sites are all specialized for a reason, but they lose a part of the person when doing so. What if there was a website that allowed users to collect all of their online (and offline!) activity and chose to whom and how they want to display it?
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