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Time’s Person of the Year is Mark Zuckerberg…sorry Julian Assange, I guess you didn’t violate enough people’s privacy.
~ Stephen Colbert
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He disagrees with the notion that people have different identities. To him, the idea that someone is different at work than at home, than at a rock concert, is dishonest. Says Kirkpatrick, ‘He believes that he will live a better life personally, and all of us will be more honest, and ultimately it will be better for the world if we dispense with that belief.’
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Facebook as the Truth Machine and an argument for anonymity - Fetlock - Open Salon Someone should have required Mark Zuckerberg to take a sociology class. If he had absorbed one drop of the symbolic interactionists from Herbert Blumer to Erving Goffman (most notably George Herbet Mead), he might think differently about the issue of multiple identities, and thereby not visit his moralism upon the rest of us. This is not a question of belief, but of careful study. How little Zuckerberg has progressed from the developmental stage of my students’ thinking, in which they choose to attach the verb “believe” to a sociologists hard-won ideas, rather than “think,” “theorize,” “find,” “argue,” or “conclude.” But even my students comprehend and relish the concept of multiple identities. For a college student, particularly newly independent resident students this concept is profoundly resonant. |
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