SELVES AND OTHERS ONLINE(lecture)

So its week three, still need to get used to this, i just lost everything i typed
for this week's post. Anyway...
the lecture was about online relationships. Guy talked about the three era namely;
Oralism, Exhange and Electronic mediation. i agree with Poster's argument
that "nature of the self and its symbolic relationship to the world has shifted"
Although his point is seen as broad and general, i think there is some truth in it.
In this present postmodernism world, people want to be heard, far from the days
of oralism when interaction was face to face, the internet creates the opportunity for
people at different places to air their views. This i suppose is the basis of fear
expressed by many parents who have to endure the pain of their child's online
relationships which in most cases make them an easy target for online grooming/
paedophilia. the various discussions about this issue on the seminar site makes
an interesting read. I suppose at some point, one should expect society to change
the shame however is that abuse of that change is often inevitable. Society today
as was talked about in the lecture has the "freedom to modify itself". A society
whereby reality can be reconstructed through images of reality. Whilst some think
of the idea of online relationships as absurd, without doubt, it is to some a haven
for freedom of expression, which in most cases like an 'open architecure', has
little or no restrictions.