dailybooth.com

Recently I joined dailybooth.com. It's basically a site where you take a photo of yourself doing whatever you happened to be doing at that particular time (or what you staged yourself doing) and just like twitter, people you follow/follow you and pretty much anyone around the world can comment or post a picture back. It's actually quite a strange experience. I don't know exactly why I joined up. I have 2 followers, one of them is me. To be honest I don't know how I ended up following myself, but my follower count is so pathetic I'd better leave it. It's quite fun to post pictures of yourself and have little snippets of conversation with people half a world away. I mostly post pictures of my make-up looks (although I am quite proud of myself for posting pictures where I am not wearing any make-up which, as those who know me can tell you, is pretty rare). I find these new social-networking sites so intriguing which I guess is one of the reasons I join them (that, and some strange narcissistic need I am fulfilling). It really is a breakdown in boundaries. Social, territorial, you name it... it's broken. On these sites, especially photo sharing ones, there are no territorial constraints, cultural and language barriers don't seem to be an issue. Some people really put their lives out there for everyone to see. I doubt 20 years ago people were sharing their deepest thoughts freely with anyone who cared to see. I think it's pretty wicked that people can connect and converse and be uninhibited by race, nationality, time, language, social class etc. It really is becoming an open world.

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