tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329817540513850224.post3333187484085678226..comments2023-10-25T04:05:04.377-07:00Comments on Botgirl's Digital Playground: Immersion in the Social NetworkBotgirl Questihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01707252228872837054noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329817540513850224.post-40132390738818209052011-10-29T09:25:24.359-07:002011-10-29T09:25:24.359-07:00splashkidd: I replied here .splashkidd: I replied <a href="http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2011/10/craving-cyborgs-in-social-stream.html" rel="nofollow"> here </a>.Botgirl Questihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01707252228872837054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329817540513850224.post-43251116633989121742011-10-28T15:15:42.240-07:002011-10-28T15:15:42.240-07:00It would be interesting to hear what your feelings...It would be interesting to hear what your feelings are in respect to how you felt from both a cognitive and physical point of view when you decided to park your self onto the shoulder of the virtual speedway and just observe instead of participating in the race? My strong sense is that you felt all of the classic signs of what an addict feels in the early to middle stages of withdrawal, given your previous involvement in the social media racing series. If that is true, the question is, how strong is the need and/or urge to get off the shoulder and race along the virtual speedway again? <br /><br />Botgirl, don't forget you have current and previous sponsors wanting you, and needing you, to get on that electronic track again! "Don't worry about the ever increasing speed of the virtual racing series" said the sponsors, "our technology will protect you"!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329817540513850224.post-19752150416857710872011-10-25T07:28:41.494-07:002011-10-25T07:28:41.494-07:00Joey1058: For those of us who are connected 24/7, ...Joey1058: For those of us who are connected 24/7, I think we are as psychologically embedded with the virtual environment as we are physically embedded within the atomic environment. We are not only within it, but it is within us.Botgirl Questihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01707252228872837054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329817540513850224.post-67170932272802725612011-10-24T16:31:17.397-07:002011-10-24T16:31:17.397-07:00I find it interesting that you are floating, rathe...I find it interesting that you are floating, rather than swimming in the data stream. Good metaphor.Joey1058https://www.blogger.com/profile/07582012137258654962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329817540513850224.post-73941588565632827322011-10-23T15:36:35.433-07:002011-10-23T15:36:35.433-07:00I think you have something with the idea of the ur...I think you have something with the idea of the urge to keep a low level of arousal going all of the time, or at least to escape the state of low-arousal/boredom. One thing I've noticed in my social media vacation is the endless urge to fill every hole in time and attention. I find myself reaching for my phone dozens of times an hour, wanting to scan for something of interest on a social network or my new reader. It was only in going on a data diet that I noticed how pervasively I get the urge to drink from the stream.Botgirl Questihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01707252228872837054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7329817540513850224.post-67478823942411631052011-10-22T21:45:01.057-07:002011-10-22T21:45:01.057-07:00Very accurate picture of immersion!
It occurs to...Very accurate picture of immersion! <br /><br />It occurs to me, maybe just because it's late at night and I'm sleepy, to wonder if there's some significance to the more or less constant sexual frisson that SL adds to the mix, through the idealized and attractive AVs that we see and that we sometimes are... Although it's not just SL of course, media in general loves the buff and young and curvy...<br /><br />Constant data input, plus constant low-level arousal, for various values of "arousal"? Does sound suspiciously immersive / attractive / captivating...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com