why do we post here and wtf point

[rayheinrich]

                                Becoming What We Post (found already made)

"Computer-mediated environments (CMEs) are a conspicuous form of self-presentation. Their users seek to construct new identities by digitally associating themselves with idealized versions of the 'selves' they have witnessed during the interactive social process of participation. This attempt to reorganize the linear narrative structure of their lives creates a digital self that has become a new form of possession.

The users make their identities tangibly self-present by associating themselves with existing ideas, narratives, symbols, and signs contained in the perceived materiality of what they witness as their physical world.

Virtual digital constructs occupy neither space nor time. They are inherently discursive spaces where people actively convene to commune with others. These CMEs are increasingly supplementing, and in some cases replacing, social interactions formerly conducted in real time between individuals in the same location. The users of these CMEs have increased access to semiotic tools, cultural artifacts, and enhanced modes of expression.

Unhinged from the material constraints of the physical body, ownership, and proximity; these new modes of self-expression have recursively informed the discourse on self-presentation. CMEs diffuse the distinctions of material and immaterial, of possible and impossible. As these dualities erode, imagination will, at first, become the equal of physical capital. In the end, they will be indistinguishable.