What we can’t see does not exist?

It is a cold morning, and I am sitting in my living room with my computer, trying to write an article. Over and over again I am being distracted of one of my side windows on the bottom of the screen. It’s there, and I can’t help to check it occasionally, something I’ve created all by myself and taking care of – my “baby”, my very important Facebook page.

I think I’m not alone with this scenario. Checking my Facebook everyday is not unusual, but the question is, why? What am I doing out there? I just logged in and directly I see this; my second cousin is “in a relationship but it’s complicated”, my other cousin just “found a lonely Brown Cow on her farm. Oh no!” and my friend says that his mobile phone is water damaged. What did I do out there again? I often forget to ask myself this tricky question.  

Many times after logging out I can feel really bad within me, even though I never admit it for anyone except for now. An uncomfortable feeling that grows bigger in me every time I have been out there. I can feel a lot more stress because I haven’t read out my Jenkins book yet, as my proudly classmates apparently has. I feel a bit outside and alone because I see happy pictures from a party this weekend I was never attending. I can also be jealous when I see that a (not so close) friend is out in the world for months travelling and has a fantastic tan, and last of all, frustrated that I am not “being in a relationship” and my status have shown the boring word “single”, “Charlotta is single” for many years. Thanks for telling!

This phenomenon Facebook show only one thing in my meaning – which we have to prove (or pretend) for each other that we actually have a life. We pretend being busy, update our status many times every day, tag friends in them to clarify that I am not alone. We load up pictures to look at and to spice, that party was totally awesome. Find new friends to request regularly. Why? Because we think that what people can’t see does not exist.

Maybe everything is not credible out there – but at the same time, it is hell of a fun!   

(Inspiration from articles about “Facebook dumbing friendships down” & “Time’s person of the Year: You.” )

Good Copy Bad Copy, A documentary about the current state of copyright and culture.

The movie is a documentary about important issues – copyright and culture. (Copyright means that files on the Internet always have an original owner.) It contains different interviews with many people working in the industry, all with various perspectives on copyright and with both positive and negative opinions and also political views.

How should the music industry take such a revolution that Internet suddenly produced?

In many years people all over the world discussed the problems that came with the Internet launch and what so suddenly happened with the music companies and industries. It’s such a difficult question, and the views and opinions are very different. The main dilemma in my opinion is, – where goes the limit? What is taking inspiration from an artist, and what is to totally copy? The line is very thin for sure.

So, what is my opinion?

I am very divide in my opinions but see two very strong points, one view for and one against.
(To be honest), unfortunately I seem to never make a finally decision on the matter.

First of all, I want to focus on this “flow of cultural music” that have been created and this creative activity. The fact that music is so easily spread can be positive for every single citizen. By only your computer, you can get multitudes of cultures and knowledge from all over the world very fast, which is an enlightening for people. I can see it as some kind of worldly democracy – where people connect easily with each other and exchange music experiences, some kind of global platform of connection which gives us cultural views.

Of course, I cannot deny the fact that file-dichotomy really is a crime and a copyright- infringement. It is at the same time very unfair that the big companies losing money on this and I think that in the future they will bring the products more into line with the consumer needs and try to conform in ways so they not losing the consumers who still loves to buy music on CDs.  

What the future will look like will the future indicate, time will tell.

Reflection of the movie “Triumph of the Nerds”.

What is most fascinating about the computer revolution is that everything happened so fast. The movie shows, in my meaning, that as soon as a machine comes into our life, an addiction builds up around it rapidly. I may not magnify if I say that today, a personal computer is a condition in life. It has a central role in the way we communicate with each other, even though we might not even reflect about it. The computer is just there – at work, at home, at school. On the other hand it´s fantastic how the computers have opened up many new ways for random people, for example one guy in the film, the launch, according to himself “changed his life”. He could actually be able to create a career as a computer-artist which would never happen if the computer and Internet never would break through. Suddenly he could show the entire world his creativity.

The movie is about ten years old and you can see that the technical development gone forward since, especially the graphic presentation and industry. It’s clear that layout and design become more and more important when we live in a world there technological advances rule peoples life.