Naked Crowd Blogging

In the section titled "Naked Crowd" by Jeffrey Rosen, he talks about the human beings revealing their emotions and feelings openly. He discusses the differences in having sincerity and authenticity. Rosen states that "sincerity requires that whatever is exposed must be true; authenticity requires that everything must be exposed as long as it is deeply felt" (480). When a person is sincere their actions are without deceit. They have a "real" expression. To be sincere is to accept that your actions are valid and complete. When one has authenticity, they can openly express all of their emotions. These emotions come from the bottom of the heart. Having authenticity is like having a lot of profound emotions that you can widely express. Sincerity is only expressing a fact.

Rosen has a really unique way of writing. He writes in a way that makes it easy for me to understand. Although he is a writer who uses big words, I can understand his main claims and such. In this section, Rosen also discusses about how technology has changed the way we express ourselves to others. And even though other people are not necessarily friends nor family members, we would post up our feelings and what emotions we are going through on our wall on Facebook and cyberspace. The way we communicate with the "world" these days is through the internet and texting through cell phones. Rosen writes in the section "The Comfort of Strangers?" that intimacy can only be gained on a personal level. Strangers cannot achieve intimacy through electronical means. Rosen states "to offer up personal information that has been taken out of context, in an effort to create the illusion of emotional connection with strangers, requires us to homogenize and standardize the very qualities that made the information personal in the first place" (484). Putting up personal information publicly for strangers to view and see makes the information non-special and not valuable anymore. It defeats the purpose of having personal information and feelings that only you should know about. I see this happen a lot on Facebook. Many people post up their emotions and feelings and situations they go through. And I know everyone goes through hard times here and there, but exposing personal information on the internet seems a bit too much. I find it unnecessary because personal information is supposed to be kept within yourself and the ones that are close to you. 



These chapters showed the emotional depth that one can take when writing online. The electronical age has been both a blessing and a curse. The internet is now a place to write about every emotional event in one's life. However this is known by the author as an unwise choice and actually reveals the insecurity of the writer.