Network. No matter I am talking about what kind of network. For me the two articles didn’t go through the other related equally important issue enough. Connection!

Raising in an under developed country, sometimes you might be able to explore some old equipment, methods and tools which were not available for your peers in many countries around the world. More than 90 percent of internet patrons have been using dial-up connection in Iran the year I entered the architecture school in 2008. (while the global percentage was about 5). You may ask yourself why I brought up dial-up connection. Because of the different style of connection (be connected). Users had to click (dial) to connect a server and then start using [the very slow] internet and again after checking emails and whatever stuff, they had to disconnect in some cases maybe to use the common telephone service and save their money.

In the old fashion place (actual or physical), network, urban space, or café as a public space you have the ability to choose whether or not to leave. However, are you still able to do this with your new version of places which I dare say that we are currently interact in? (right now reading my response).

It has been more than 6 month that I resist activating my Facebook account for some reasons, believe me or not I sometimes suffer from not having one in some ways. I cannot detach myself from  something that is called a new medium, a new place to act and react, and even live simultaneously.

For years people were working with and on internet, and they could take it away whenever they wanted. You could have a new email and id address everyday (for me as a teenager this was very fun). What happened? Let’s have profiles. Let’s tell everyone about your interest. Let’s always be available and online. Let’s demolish your privacy. Oh no, who says that, go to your setting then security and you can decide who is going to see your personal information, I mean an individual not Google, Facebook, etc. Government is not individual, security agencies are made to protect you just like doctors, they know everything about you but they promise not to tell anyone, I mean at least most of the time.

When there is a debate or struggle between those who think we are losing our society because of being that drunken with our quotidian online activities and those who think this new kind of place, space, and even society is just different from our old known version in form and shape while it is still a platform and context for our same social activities, no one tries to define an exit and entrance door for this highway and I am thinking about reactivating my Facebook account and lack of capability of resistance.