ENG 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Exhibitionism, Katie Roiphe
Document Summary
Commentary on similarity between fictional novel writing and facebook: how facebook is like fiction (how facebook users are like fictional characters): Social media = wholesale inventions of self, not projections . Extremeness of everything: perpetual high-pitch of pleasure or crisis . Irony at all times, parody of facebook norms while embracing them. Friendship on facebook bears about the same relation to friendship in life, as being run over by a car in a cartoon resembles being run over by a car in life. Adults are just as guilty as teens: people in existential/marital crises put up happy family photos on vacations and status updates of charming things said by their children. Presenting/inventing themselves so that they seem a certain way. It is not, alas, the sun also rises, but facebook is the novel we are all writing. : lauren mechling & laura moser.
