would love to hear more - what kind of work, what is home base like, how does the kid socialize, what age did you consider, how do friends come and go... I'm thinking hard about this.
Yeah, I think the "authentic" and "real" stuff is one direction that we gravitated towards after seeing early usage; we purposefully made it really simple with a few constraints to see how people would use it. We thought it was going to be a side project, but so far the lessons have been unexpected and fun. I don't know where the product exactly goes, and we're not going to try to push it into any preconceived box, but there is something interesting going on about how people see themselves and what they're willing to share. For me, authenticity = diversity. And weirdly, there's a lot of diversity to be found in just our faces! Appreciate the thoughts on this - I like thinking about this stuff.
this is true if you consider cases where sometimes your online interactions seem more real or authentic than anything you do offline and identity comprise both. I prob should bifurcate my idea that "real" here means where you spend the majority of your life, for me i'd rather be offline, and it feels like we're caught trying to one up each other talking about our offline lives on these social networks that may not be the most accurate representation of what really goes on. I guess I'm interested in the "multitudes" too, just see a very edited version on FB, Instagram, etc (they serve their purposes)
narcissism is getting love from
people about your "awesome" life - it applies to selfies too .. but I also think taking photos of yourself gives you control over how you want the photo framed, the face you make, etc.. think control might be a bigger factor?
good points here.. one tangential and very undeveloped thought I had was w selfie/expirations and how it fills in the gaps of real life activity. you should go live in the 3d world and taking precious time away to brag about things on FB et al is maybe not where we should be.. but as a quick gesture for the in between times, maybe there are products for this moments of nothingness.
I'm learning that these are more like faces you would make in front of a mirror -- if you could carry a mirror with you anywhere and have it upload your face to a magical place in the cloud.