Tere Einar,
I was obsessed with 'Black mirror' for a short while and the episode you mentioned is one that I remember especially well...
I think it's not the future - it already is the present. As you said people will verify your identity on facebook to check if you're trustworthy or not. In the US a credit score (a number you get based on your credit card history) will determine your ability to rent an apartment or buy a car. Some employers may also check it. Other than that I think it's real life pushed into the virtual world, where your reputation, social circles, emotional bonds, relationships etc. are represented with digits, because that's what the smallest constituent unit of the digital world is. You said that in the future everything may be about your social status online. It is already too much about social status and the society is already not genuine in real life. The extrapolation of the processes onto the virtual world is a natural turn of things, because of the development of technology, and it is not shocking to me that it is all going to be happening online. What is shocking to me are the processes themselves, so deeply ingrained in humans. Steemit and other social media only bring it all out. Myself, I basically grew up online and I am definitely addicted, but the outcome of it is that I actually value real life contacts much higher and enjoy them way more.
I agree with you about steemit becoming the new facebook and it is even more so, because you can actually affect what you present on your facebook account a posteriori, while everything you produce stays in the blockchain forever. This way it makes steemit a more rational and measurable tool for proving someone's identity, hireability or sanity... Not sure if it's a bad thing though - in the hyper busy world of information overload, when you don't get the chance to know the people you interact with along with their families and friends like we all used to even 20 years ago, now we need some sense of security that the internet provides us with. I think it's all a sign of the world and times we live in.
There is no privacy. And it is sad but nothing belongs to us anymore.
Hi Kasia,
Good thoughts...yes, I agree with you - it's already here in that sense. But what I meant was that in the near future upvoting other people might literally become the new currency, just like in that Black Mirror episode and like it is here on the Steem blockchain. Now that will take this social media society to a whole new level, don't you think? ;)
Nice to meet you btw! How long have you been posting on Steemit?
I definitely agree with you! To me however it's just a change in means... but going in a depressing direction.
I'm really happy to meet you as well - especially that you come from the Baltics which are really close to my heart (and I saw you share your living space with some Poles haha)! I'm just starting - it's been a month now but the concept and philosophy behind it seems really interesting to me! head ööd!