Fahrenheit 451 –The Social Networks that burns the books!

by admin on 02/07/10 at 1:13 am

Just fin­ished read­ing “Fahren­heit 451″ ( Ray Brad­bury).Read it as a teenage at age 16, but then some­one in my office gave it to me and i read it all over again.this time i have insight’s

For the plot sum­mary you can read the book or look at wikipedia.in this post i want to men­tion one spe­sific dia­log in the book that i find some­how true for now days.

the cen­tral char­ac­ter, Guy Mon­tag, is a fireman.in the future, fire­man are burn­ing book.He then start ques­tion­ing his life and work and the book goes thru his revelation.at the begin­ing, his boss, Cap­tain Beatty comes visit him after Guy call sick.Guy ask the cap­tain if he knows whay they are called fire­man and the cap­tain explains him the reason.in this beu­ti­full monolog from the cap­tains (the answer) , i want to queute one sentenes that relevent to us all.

…Run the movie now for­ward, Montag.fast,click,view,look.Now,flick,here,how,who,what,where,hah?Bang!.Short short short. Politics?one line two sentences.Tilte.

This says it all.the author saw it com­ming bakc in the 50ties.he just didnt knew how we will do it.what i am talk­ing about?

twitter,facebook,trackbacks,pings,stumble upon,digg it.….

All those “social net­works” and the stat­ues providers out there.they are just doing it,they are mak­ing us sum­ma­rize all things into 140 words.with a title.google looks for the title for SEO.if this inter­est­ing, it on page 1.else, we burn it.your twi­iter stat­ues is to long.you burned.your face­book title is to long.you burned.publish on digg-it –only 140 chars.sorry no more.our data­base is to “small”.….

Every­where you look at, the inter­net social net­works become the firman.

and what is left: blogs where you can write more than 2 sen­tences and give forht your ideas .con­tiune read­ing books af any kind!not just “rich father poor father”  or “how to make mil­lion in 4 hours work”.read his­tory, read liter­ture.
 

just dont get burned in these social networks.!

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