Do you really see yourself as self?

As previously stated in my first blog, Facebook is my virtual network and the purpose of this was to give power to human kind to share and to make the world open and connected, in another word make the world smaller and reachable by assuming that we as self, present our individuality and authenticity as a result of the humanist patterns made of this virtual network. The traditional form of Facebook was to verify your identity by producing you real name and age when you register and these are verified. View the development of Facebook and all technological details embedded, it really clear that, the original form of Facebook has shifted from the humanist aspect to post human narrative. The reason why I say this is because the way we form our identity is totally different, for example on Facebook, other people also contribute to our virtual self-narrative. On Facebook, the software itself and other people are producing an online self (Laurie McNeill, 2012.). For this reason we may see group of women creating their self-identity because of their views on a particular common belief that they have, so the meaning of self has another taste from the humanist view. Talking about the profile, we should look the profile in the context of network and its activities in which the individual life or narrative engages with others. Post human does not have to be anti-human for the reason that all the factors surrounding human contribute to the human development. Facebook has brought another compelling post human issue that emerges the cyberspace because of its design to be part of our daily consumption that have taken away the narrative and selves of Facebook. I am really conservative on this compelling issue of humanist and post humanist concepts.

References

 McNeill, L. (2012) There is no”I”in network: Social networking site and post human auto/biography. Biography 35(1), 65-82 .doi:10.1353/bio.2012.0009