Confession on Good Friday
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Recently, I blogged about how designers might embrace the coming move (I think exodus might be too strong a word) towards virtuality. I mentioned that this might be a good stage to understand people, their interactions (and ultimately their motivations and emotions) for design purposes. Additionally, it is a ripe environment for rapid digital prototyping.
Whether or not the 3rd dimension is the gateway to all-out virtuality is debatable, in my opinion. I hold the view that richer interactions through social media (Facebook is launching IM) is the precursor that will make people embrace virtuality in lieu of the physicality they’re accustomed to. In many cases, this shift is happening because it’s more convenient to be sitting in your living room on your couch and “prototyping your life”. In other cases, it is happening because it is possible to overcome an awkward social encumbrance.
For instance, this article about people confessing their sins online.
Is there nothing sacred? Or better yet.. How long until we all will be worshipping at the altar of pixels?
Confession is an interesting strand of communication. It seeks anonimity, something/someone ‘bigger’, and the act of opening out ones thoughts is an end in itself…
So yes, perhaps the virtual world/internet may actually be eerily close to the model for such communication… and much more to come.
been thinking about this myself for some time…
http://mohanshivani.blogspot.com/2008/02/confession.html