Connection with Low Expectation and the Search for Community in an age of Alienation.

            Hal talked about how with the use of peep we have redefined our culture. Peep is just a definition for websites like Facebook and YouTube that are exploiting people’s lives for entertainment, personal benefit, communication, etc. This has changed our culture because now people are communicating online instead of in person. Our world has become a virtual world. People stay inside to play video games, watch TV, or surf the internet more than they go outside. If you want to look anything up or find a person you haven’t talked to or seen in a few years, you can just type that in to the computer and find it in seconds. Our generation now has become less dependent on the outside world and physical interactions that people alienate themselves in their houses.

            Hal also talked about how peep has redefined the word friend. He talked about how so many people have hundreds of friends on Facebook, but out of the hundreds you really only talk, hang out with, or know a select few. Why do you still friend request them then? People add these people usually to look at their profiles, to see what people have been up to, or to see what they are doing with their lives if they haven’t seen them in years. With their friends on Facebook, people have low expectations from them. You wouldn’t ever expect them to be there for you if you were going through a crisis like you would your best friend.  Hal talked about a woman who blogged about her life  because she felt like she could be herself with the people following her blog and was comfortable enough to share with them her stories, but in her normal day  to day life she didn’t feel that same way. A lot of people feel more comfortable being themselves around complete strangers or in a virtual world rather than the real world.