Comments on: Love in the time of Twitter http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:58:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Social Tech and Sexuality, CTD. by Broooklyn Z « The Progressive Internal Critique http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004/comment-page-1#comment-7004 Social Tech and Sexuality, CTD. by Broooklyn Z « The Progressive Internal Critique Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:42:59 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4004#comment-7004 [...] http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004 [...] […] http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004 […]

]]> By: Damek.» Blog Archive » Memory as Social Ideology http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004/comment-page-1#comment-6933 Damek.» Blog Archive » Memory as Social Ideology Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:54:57 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4004#comment-6933 [...] it was with interest that I came across this post about the cultural memory of social morés. It seems David Brooks wrote some column lamenting the loss of romanticism in the “twitter [...] […] it was with interest that I came across this post about the cultural memory of social morés. It seems David Brooks wrote some column lamenting the loss of romanticism in the “twitter […]

]]> By: Like It Or Not, David Brooks Remains The Columnist The Internets Blog About The Most « Around The Sphere http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004/comment-page-1#comment-6931 Like It Or Not, David Brooks Remains The Columnist The Internets Blog About The Most « Around The Sphere Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:59:29 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4004#comment-6931 [...] Tim Carmody: You know, I actu­ally really like David Brooks. I think Bobos In Par­adise was a ter­rific book; I stick up for his place on the NYT Op-Ed mast­head; his stuff on neu­ro­science has been really good; and I’m delighted when­ever I see him on TV, on Jim Lehrer or Chris Matthews, because he seems to think and talk like a reg­u­lar guy. Okay, a reg­u­lar guy who went to the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago and never really left. But I never really left either, so I get that too. [...] […] Tim Carmody: You know, I actu­ally really like David Brooks. I think Bobos In Par­adise was a ter­rific book; I stick up for his place on the NYT Op-Ed mast­head; his stuff on neu­ro­science has been really good; and I’m delighted when­ever I see him on TV, on Jim Lehrer or Chris Matthews, because he seems to think and talk like a reg­u­lar guy. Okay, a reg­u­lar guy who went to the Uni­ver­sity of Chicago and never really left. But I never really left either, so I get that too. […]

]]> By: nicole http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004/comment-page-1#comment-6922 nicole Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:40:43 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4004#comment-6922 Technology opens the dating pool by enabling us singles to meet more people with similar interests - and obviously communicate with them in many different ways. Getting to know someone in-person, face to face, will never be replaced by texts, sms, im, fb, twitter, skype, etc. Technology will always move forward and ultimately it's up to us to be ourselves in whichever environment we choose to present within. Each medium is a minefield of nuances where we deciphering language and meaning. The false facade each medium enables is our own fault for taking advantage of - you can't blame tech for that. Technology opens the dating pool by enabling us singles to meet more people with similar interests — and obviously communicate with them in many different ways.

Getting to know someone in-person, face to face, will never be replaced by texts, sms, im, fb, twitter, skype, etc. Technology will always move forward and ultimately it’s up to us to be ourselves in whichever environment we choose to present within.

Each medium is a minefield of nuances where we deciphering language and meaning.

The false facade each medium enables is our own fault for taking advantage of — you can’t blame tech for that.

]]> By: Saheli http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004/comment-page-1#comment-6914 Saheli Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:33:47 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4004#comment-6914 Good point, Gavin. Sheesh. Good point, Gavin. Sheesh.

]]> By: Gavin http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004/comment-page-1#comment-6913 Gavin Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:30:06 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4004#comment-6913 It's also infuriating the way that Brooks blames the social shift (exacerbated by technology) on feminism, all the more so for the offhand way he does it. "The post-feminist era"! Blink and you'll miss it! (Or is that just Brooks-ian wishful thinking?) Sure, Brooks thinks that technology is a problem. Technology, and women. It’s also infuriating the way that Brooks blames the social shift (exacerbated by technology) on feminism, all the more so for the offhand way he does it. “The post-feminist era”! Blink and you’ll miss it! (Or is that just Brooks-ian wishful thinking?) Sure, Brooks thinks that technology is a problem. Technology, and women.

]]> By: Saheli http://snarkmarket.com/2009/4004/comment-page-1#comment-6911 Saheli Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:46:40 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=4004#comment-6911 Ezra Klein's rebuttal is pretty perfect, and your analysis of the Funhouse past also right on. I do think that Brooks is struggling, and failing, to make a slightly different point, however: not about technology, but about the economics of romance. He can blame technology for making it more apparent (after all, preference matching algorithms are being industriously researched by Netflix and OkCupid alike), but really, any casual reader of Jane Austen could tell you it was always there. That these romantic economics may have changed I won't dispute, but blaming technology is a mode of analysis bound to lack insight. Ezra Klein’s rebuttal is pretty perfect, and your analysis of the Funhouse past also right on. I do think that Brooks is struggling, and failing, to make a slightly different point, however: not about technology, but about the economics of romance. He can blame technology for making it more apparent (after all, preference matching algorithms are being industriously researched by Netflix and OkCupid alike), but really, any casual reader of Jane Austen could tell you it was always there. That these romantic economics may have changed I won’t dispute, but blaming technology is a mode of analysis bound to lack insight.

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