Comments on: RT: @2009digitalboy: ZETSUBOU SHITA! Twitter Has Left Me In Despair! – OR, Is Twitter Making or Breaking Hikkikomori? – Don’t F This Up (4)

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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:39:46 +0000

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Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:39:49 +0000

[...] these things. Yet at the same time, I struggle to comprehend why hikikomori should be idolised like digitalboy does sometimes. Yes, I sympathise with hikikomori because it’s a horrible, horrible suffering, but I [...]

By: 21stcenturydigitalboy

21stcenturydigitalboy — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:13:30 +0000

You may have missed it last time because your post was at first caught as spam, but yes, you can quote my post. However, if you ask again, I will assume this is spam and delete all three comments.

By: Polprav

Polprav — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:08:14 +0000

Hello from Russia!
Can I quote a post in your blog with the link to you?

By: 21stcenturydigitalboy

21stcenturydigitalboy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:21:18 +0000

You are very right, but consider this. I follow around 80-90 people and there’s no way I read everything they tweet because it’s a matter of who I want to read more and a matter of when I’m on vs. when any of them are on. However, I don’t think that’s wholly different from the policy that ‘in the meat’ you cannot talk to all of your friends all of the time. I’ve got some friends who are at my house EVERY weekend, and some that are only here once every 3 or 4 weeks, so it’s not like I’m paying these people huge amounts of attention, but they are still my friends. It’s sort of like how a major socialite will have a lot of ‘friend of a friends’ who they more or less know, but only really chill with every once in a while.

The only way people tend to keep up at high speeds with a larger network is, well, cell phones, and then you’re getting into ‘our’ domain.

By: usagijen

usagijen — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:17:31 +0000

Ahh tricky indeed. For one, unless your followers only follow a handful of users, I doubt they’ll be able to read all your tweets. I think sdshamshel tweeted something along these lines before, about the ‘law of diminishing returns’ in twitter (and even in other social networking services or social networking in general) — the more you follow, the less you’ll actually get to see. Some of them might read your tweets, but on a later date/time than when you posted it. While you can say that this allows people to gain the ability to Leap Through Time, it’s likely that the conversation will turn jagged. It’s difficult if you get used to (spoiled by?) this kind of ‘conversation’ and up unable to function well in real-life conversations, end up in what Owen referred to as e-nnui. But I don’t think that applies to you, which is good.

I do believe, though, that twitter can bring out a positive change in people. A once socially aloof person who’s not at all interested in connecting with others might change his/her ways once he/she gets to discover the great things that connecting with people (and/or being part of a community) brings, and hopefully, translates that in his/her real life world. Blogging helped boost my confidence and humility level by quite a notch, which is good.

Aaannd I think I’ll stop before I stray off from the topic any further ^^;

By: lolikappa

lolikappa — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:07:58 +0000

Shit this post was awesome. Well done on not fucking it up~

Like, legit, I might cite this and quote you in my EPIC TWELVE PAGE PAPER ON HIKIKKOMORI AS SEEN IN WELCOME TO THE NHK. (I cannot believe I’m in a fucking lit seminar on anime and manga. My college is fucking ridiculous.) I have no idea in what context I’d quote you, but I can totally use you in a citation, and it’ll be awesome, and claim that this is a modern Western essay on the topic. It’ll be great. Contextualize you and shit.

.lolikappa

By: moritheil

moritheil — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 02:09:12 +0000

Indeed, Twitter is the real-life Zetsubo channel.

By: 21stcenturydigitalboy

21stcenturydigitalboy — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:07:12 +0000

Very good points all around, and I agree with all of this. It’s true that the sociality of the heart/mind counts for a lot of how you perceive it. As for me, I need to feel hyper-social. I have an obsession with being accepted and looked up to.

By: Will of the Wisps

Will of the Wisps — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:14:14 +0000

So much great discussion happened, so I feel compelled to chip in my thoughts. A large part of socialization is the perceived social network, of people you can relate to and talk to when you need someone to listen. This offers various psychological benefits as well as health benefits, such as the most common one, protection against depressive disorders. However, since a lot of socialization’s benefits are based upon perceived socialization, if you feel empty when you speak to someone on the internet and don’t think it is socializing, it does not offer much of its benefits. The opposite is true, in that even if you have only 2 people who watch your twitter, if you believe you have a great social network that you can talk to, then you theoretically will enjoy the protective effects, including better mood and feeling of wellbeing.

So…. Pull a 1984 on yourself? 2+2=5? Changing one’s beliefs are not just fantasy though…

Ok. Its late, and I cannot form coherrent thought righ now…

But my second point is one must decide whether one would need to be hypersocial. It is true that social leaders are actually more well adjusted than their contemporary, including those who are hypersocial but not leaders, or those who are not social. However, the studies on these things are only done in adolescents, and as one enters adulthood, it is likely that whether you are hypersocial vs normal social does not make much of a difference health /psychological outcome wise. So I guess it is more of a personal choice whether one feels one needs to be hypersocial. As long as one feel that one is sufficiently social enough and that there is a good social network, one will be more protected against depression and other psychological / physical health risks.