Week 2: Trivialization Schmivialization

As we discussed in class the topic of trivialization and through the course of our reading I have found that I stand in-between on this issue. I feel that people should have the right to read and publish whatever they want, I just personally find things like public networking trivial.



I feel that myspace, facebook, twitter, etc. are detrimental to our communication as a society. There are way to many available public forums to voice an opinion on a whim without thinking of the consequences associated with it. I see no positive impact that these forums are making and ultimately find people being much more inverted as a result of it. People often don't take advantage of opportunities in the classroom to voice their opinion, for example, but have no problem verbally abusing another persons standpoint from behind a keyboard. I find this to be a sad result of over-accessibility to instant communication. People have become more comfortable communicating in these forms and less apt to communicate person to person. This is why I for one take a stand against these venues in order to keep myself distant from this possibility. I prefer communication with real people who I can see with my own eyes. On the post-modernist end I do see that people should have the right to participate in these forums and I wish them all the best and support their right to choose. I just see a large majority of the information shared to be clearly trivial as opposed to public forums such as classroom debates and social settings where real communication takes place.