This Link Is Dangerous

Hey all,

I recently saw "The Innovation of Loneliness", Shimi Cohen's animation on social networking. Watch it here:

Or here:

https://vimeo.com/70534716

While I agree with many of Cohen's ideas, he oversimplifies social networking (specifically, its positive aspects.) However, he also brings up an important question:

Do we consider how social media affects us?

And, equally important:

Do we want to?

While browsing the comments on Vimeo, however, I came across a new question. Several claimed that this video was flagged as "dangerous" on Facebook. I went to check it out for myself, and sure enough, the Vimeo link was blocked. I could not share it in my News Feed or private chat messages.

This has some heavy implications. Why has this video been flagged? How does that change its validity? How does that change its visibility?

The YouTube version is unflagged. Regardless, incidents like these show much we need to think about social media. Not just the academics that make their way into this video's citations, or thinker-creators like Shimi Cohen.

Everyone.

Until then, maybe it's okay that this video is flagged. After all, Facebook probably has a good reason for us not to see it.

Or maybe we just don't want to.