A Search Culture and Text Message Forwards
Our Obsession with Search
In the middle of my frustrations yesterday in trying to follow faulty google and mapquest directions, I was reminded of an article someone shared with me recently: "What Video Search Means for Search" by Bill Wise and Dave Pasternack. The article talks about how new video search options reflect an enormous cultural phenomenon - our obsession with searching. I really found it interesting. Think about how the Internet has changed our information expectations. And google? Recent books abound studying the cultural effects.
Check out this excerpt from Wise and Pasternack's article:
The long and the short of it: between Google, video search, and Tivo, I am my own gatekeeper.
Say It Isn't So...
As if e-mail forwards weren’t enough, now I’m getting text message forwards on my phone. I kid you not. Fortunately I have a plan so that I’m not charged per text message, but I’m still not enjoying it. And if I were getting the nickel-a-pop charge, I’d be spitting nails. I’m sorry, but I think it is extremely annoying to get an “If you love Jesus, you will forward this to 381 people in the next 11 seconds or you are a hopeless heathen who deserves to spend eternity with the other Godless meanies who didn’t forward on this annoying message either.”
I’m starting to realize that if you add up all the bad luck I should be reaping because of my refusal to send the thousands of e-mail (and now text message too) forwards I get, I’m going to have to live to be over 600 to squeeze in all those years of bad luck.
In the middle of my frustrations yesterday in trying to follow faulty google and mapquest directions, I was reminded of an article someone shared with me recently: "What Video Search Means for Search" by Bill Wise and Dave Pasternack. The article talks about how new video search options reflect an enormous cultural phenomenon - our obsession with searching. I really found it interesting. Think about how the Internet has changed our information expectations. And google? Recent books abound studying the cultural effects.
Check out this excerpt from Wise and Pasternack's article:
The masses are no longer willing to live at the beck and call of the information gatekeepers. Instead, they're looking to get information on their own terms.
The long and the short of it: between Google, video search, and Tivo, I am my own gatekeeper.
Say It Isn't So...
As if e-mail forwards weren’t enough, now I’m getting text message forwards on my phone. I kid you not. Fortunately I have a plan so that I’m not charged per text message, but I’m still not enjoying it. And if I were getting the nickel-a-pop charge, I’d be spitting nails. I’m sorry, but I think it is extremely annoying to get an “If you love Jesus, you will forward this to 381 people in the next 11 seconds or you are a hopeless heathen who deserves to spend eternity with the other Godless meanies who didn’t forward on this annoying message either.”
I’m starting to realize that if you add up all the bad luck I should be reaping because of my refusal to send the thousands of e-mail (and now text message too) forwards I get, I’m going to have to live to be over 600 to squeeze in all those years of bad luck.
posted by Lee Ann @ 1:41 PM
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