December 17, 2006
Enough about you
More from Time Magazine on user generated content.
"Americans have decided the most important person in their lives is ... them, and our culture is now built upon that idea. It's the User-Generated Generation.
... The assumption is that an audience of strangers will be somehow interested, or at the very worst not offended. Intimacies that were once whispered into the phone are now announced unabashedly into cell phones as loud running conversations in public places. Diaries once sealed under lock and key are now called blogs and posted daily for all those who care to make the emotional investment.
... The danger just might be that we miss the next great book or the next great idea, or that we fail to meet the next great challenge ... because we are too busy celebrating ourselves and listening to the same tune we already know by heart." Hear hear.
Related: - 'You' named Time's person of 2006
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