I’m now 10 days into my lifecasting, social media experiment for 2008 and last night an interesting thing happened. Someone that had been watching my lifecast actually showed up at the venue I was at and we hung out in person. Now, fortunately this particular “fan” was non-threatening, cute and a cool person. But, this brings up the inevitable question that lifecasting presents, “Can this ever get dangerous?”
This was always the big threat when MySpace first got so popular and back in 2005 I wrote about it in one of my better blog posts entitled, “e.Love at night in my parents basement…” The concepts and preconceived notions that I wrote about back in 2005 seem to slowly be melting away. Our lives are becoming more and more open and because of this our lives are increasingly becoming easier and easier to manage. But, now we have a new invasion of privacy in lifecasting. Thus far, I’ve heard many mixed opinions on whether lifecasting is a good or bad thing. Many are indifferent and have no opinion what so ever. Is it dirty to watch someone else live their life, or is this merely the next logical step for reality television?
Further more, when complete strangers start showing up to events where I’m at and know everything about me, when I know nothing about them, should I be concerned. Or should I embrace this contact and add it to my ever expanding list of people that can help me live a better and more efficient life? The Austin Poetry Slam last night was a great experience and has encouraged me to start reading some of my own prose. The girl who met up with us there seemed to enjoy herself and had never been to a Poetry Slam before. So, do I feel awkward or weird about her showing up unexpected? Not in the slightest. I’m glad she got to experience something that I enjoy in person, just like I’m glad that everyone that tuned in to my live broadcast got to experience something I enjoy, remotely. Maybe, lifecasting is really about spreading culture to people that may not be familiar, or spreading ideas to the people who want to hear them. I don’t necessarily live a different life than you or your friends, unless of course you’re tuning in from India. Then, I’m sure the differences are infinite.
I guess my new mission is to just live the way I want to and hope that people enjoy it. I am trying to make this thing more entertaining and my goal is to live broadcast more and more events as they come up. I’m currently reading “The 4-hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferriss and trying to implement many of the concepts he writes about into my own life. This will, in theory, cut back on the time I spend in front of the computer and provide me more income and more time to go and do interesting things that you might find of interest. So, with that said, take a look at my live broadcast. Judge me. Provide feedback to the things that I do and do not do and give advice to live better. Take my archive footage and cut it into stupid videos that make me look like an idiot. The possibilities are endless and you feedback is encouraged and necessary. So, let’s hear it!
And for the record, I don’t think lifecasting is dangerous as long as you’re using it responsibly…whatever that means.
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