{"id":19,"date":"2007-03-30T02:23:29","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T10:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2007-03-30T02:25:53","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T10:25:53","slug":"social-software-are-you-really-interacting-with-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/30\/social-software-are-you-really-interacting-with-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Software: Are you really interacting with people?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My answer to this question is, &#8220;No.&#8221; You are not interacting with people. You are interacting with their simulacra&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Who did you hang out with the most this week? Honestly, it was my co-worker from India. I sat across from him and went over how the XML interface worked for shipping and receiving computer hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the very people I look forward to hanging out with the most are the ones whose simulacra I am most acquainted with.<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t I be hanging out with my co-worker who has more reality than the images that flit across my screen?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve done so much on the Internet, that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simulacra_and_Simulation\">I explain life (the real) in terms of technology (the unreal)<\/a>. For a lot of techies, this is the case. Are you a techie and bothered by this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My answer to this question is, &#8220;No.&#8221; You are not interacting with people. You are interacting with their simulacra&#8230; Who did you hang out with the most this week? Honestly, it was my co-worker from India. I sat across from him and went over how the XML interface worked for shipping and receiving computer hardware. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}