I found the readings for this weekend to be very interesting in how our social media works and in what ways it may change in the future or has changed from past to present. Individuals now see themselves as trying to connect to their friends as well as a bringer of revelation to their peers. It is easy to harness the power of "plugging-in" when people are so willing to be open with everyone.
In a way it feels easy because we find connections everywhere. You have your family and friends from high-school, college, work, parties, etc. that you collect and use as a spring-board to their connections that they've gathered from their own experiences. The hope is to express yourself creatively, find a job, become a celebrity, and more all just sitting at your computer/phone/television.
The reading for this weekend that caught my attention was the story written by Ford on the future of copyright and being sued. It seemed odd to me that that was his direction since it talked about people having to learn how to become a "lawyer" and that it is apart of every day life. At first I thought about how sad that would be, at least in the perspective view point of someone who didn't grow up in that time.
Now I just think about how there are many implications to what being "sued" means for the future. It is almost as easy (in the story) to pay off lawsuits since everything seems to be under $10 for one child. Perhaps it is just a way in which companies can get the gratification of getting paid for "damages" without it being a huge controversy in the paper, such as what we've read about in Lessig's work.
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