{"id":1289,"date":"2010-12-22T17:43:02","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T01:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2010-12-22T17:43:02","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T01:43:02","slug":"the-new-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/the-new-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"The new magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/liako\/5284481754\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5168\/5284481754_ee9591cc99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a> The Facebook homescreen is a remarkable thing. I just saw a video of a friend throwing food at birds; relatives taking pictures of themselves in a hot tub; a link to a mind-expanding article; and a status message that made me laugh. It made me think: the homescreen is the new magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we can be simplistic with this and say lots of pictures and content makes thee a magazine. But what strikes me as fascinating is how much personal content is shared. People&#8217;s thoughts, insight into their lives, and the real-time autobiographical dictation by our &#8220;friends&#8221;. It makes me think of the fascination people have with celebrities, and how gossip magazines are some of the highest grossing of their kind.  The same phenomenon is being exploited here &#8212; which is people want to know more about people they know. While with celebrities you could potentially say people do it due to a fixation on celebrity status and looks, I would argue the reason gossip magazines are so popular is due to the curiousity into the lives of people <em>who are familiar<\/em>. People would be equally fascinated with a magazine about celebrities as a magazine of their neighbours, if it was practical.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost like Facebook&#8217;s homescreen is the new media version of a publication. But of your friends. And like a glossy magazine. Of original content from otherwise hard-to-obtain situations.<\/p>\n<p>Or more practically speaking, like a gossip magazine of your neighbours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Facebook homescreen is a remarkable thing. I just saw a video of a friend throwing food at birds; relatives taking pictures of themselves in a hot tub; a link to a mind-expanding article; and a status message that made me laugh. It made me think: the homescreen is the new magazine. Sure, we can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,29],"tags":[215,268,415,423],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialcomputing","category-trends-internet","tag-link","tag-people","tag-personal-blog","tag-video-blog","post-preview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eliasbizannes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}