The Viral Me- Devin Friedman

"What if he could do that at scale? With all your friends all the time? With more friends than you could previously have done? And have the affirmation of more and more people? That's powerful."

I really enjoyed reading about this character Jiggity. It seemed like a pretty comical article at first. However, it scared me a little when I read about this remote controller that can give us everything we want at the time we want. It made me think about how lazy humans are becoming. We really need a remote to do everything for us other than walk our dog? WOW! What has our generation come to? I bet that if there was some kind of robot that walked our dogs for us human's would buy it.


 Jiggity's plan to invent the iphone into this device that does everything for us is key example


( EEVOX SOCIAL ELEMENT)In this article he even brings up a point about us being able to see our friends all the time and always becoming aware of their location and your friends aware of what your doing on your personal time.


Friedman argues that people love to be the center of attention and love to be around their friends. Friedman makes it seem that if we are able to stalk each other that we will be happy. I think that some of his ideas were insane! I would not like to know what my friends are doing all the time and I would not want them to know where I am. I feel like some of the ideas he brings up take away from our individuality. It takes away from stepping back and just being alone sometimes. Everything about our lives should not be revolved around technology or iphone apps.


This article makes me think further into the superficial world we are being sucked into. We have become a part of this world that is willing to watch our every move.


It's unfortunate. Friedman talks about his own experience with social media and states he
 "gave two sites access to my credit cards so I could share my purchases with my friends. I did my best to check in wherever I went on Foursquare. And what it all made me feel, mostly, was stupid. And anxious that I didn't have enough people following me and then that I was the kind of person who wants people to follow him."-  Friedman's point helped me conclude in the idea that we place so much personal information into social fields in exchange for friends and followers. We have come to believe that social websites help us gain new friends, stay further connected and help us become more confident. However, this false idea that we feed of comes back to hurt us in its process. As we can see the author himself talks about feeling anxious when he didn't have people following because he wanted attention and was not getting it. The author gave his credit card to this site so that he can share information with his friends.

This article shows us the extremes that people take in order to fit in and feel more social. Our  new generation and technology is creating their own trap. We are trapping ourselves and allowing the web to further suck us in through advances in technology that tend to make us think that we are important.