Social media’s greatest assets
Social media’s greatest assets – anonymity, ‘virality,’ interconnectedness – are also its main weaknesses. Evgeny Morozov
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Social media’s greatest assets – anonymity, ‘virality,’ interconnectedness – are also its main weaknesses. Evgeny Morozov
Would you be willing to give your life to save the world if no one ever knew your name? If anonymity was the price you would have to pay for significance, would it be too great a price? To live a life of courage is not a guarantee of prestige or adulation. It only matters … Read more
[T]he democratic principle of one man, one vote, viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility. Erik von … Read more
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by the West are ineffectual substitutes for the sheltering and soothing anonymity of communal existence. Eric Hoffer
The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority. Eric Hoffer
I want to be normal. I really want anonymity. Emma Watson
Exhibitionism and a nervous wish for concealment, for anonymity, thus battle inside the buyer of any piece of clothing. Elizabeth Bowen
Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing. Elena Ferrante
I didn’t choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence. Elena Ferrante
We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity. Edgar Bronfman, Jr.