21
mai
2013
Decisões da nova era
Essa imagem é antiga - nota-se pelos modelos de celulares...Imagina como está hoje?
Faz muito tempo que não escrevo aqui. Seja por estar finalizando a dissertação de mestrado e o trabalho, seja pelas reflexões que pairam sobre o meu futuro.
Bem, a verdade é que, diante dos fatos, não posso mais negar que as mídias sociais são o direcionamento de minha carreira. Nesse quesito, noto o quanto as mudanças cotidianas são cada vez mais drásticas:
1) Deixamos de postar em blogs para opinar diretamente no Facebook;
2) As empresas não criam mais sites, e sim, páginas nas redes sociais;
3) Ninguém presta atenção em nada ao redor, de tão vidrados no Face, Whatsapp e games;
4) Pessoas absolutamente relutantes e céticas em relação a redes sociais resolveram criar um perfil no “Face”.
Bem, acho tudo isso muito interessante, mas…Esse movimento acontece no Japão há mais de quatro anos. Na época em que morava lá, pensava: “Será que os brasileiros um dia ficarão assim, só olhando para suas telas de celulares? Não, acho que no Brasil seria meio perigoso essa distração toda”. Ledo engano.
Hoje, no metrô, observe: estamos todos vidrados nos celulares e tablets.
Noto também que meu comportamento mudou: li meus últimos livros no Kindle e não senti nenhuma diferença – pelo contrário, achei até melhor, porque os “livros” ficam mais leves.
O meu ultimato se deu no domingo de manhã, quando li a Folha no tablet. Sempre acreditei que a coisa mais gostosa do mundo era ler jornal impresso após tomar café da manhã. E, não, lá estava eu, lendo no tablet porque estava com preguiça de comprar o jornal na banca.
Pois é, essas e outras constatações me fizeram confirmar que devo continuar minha trajetória profissional em mídias sociais, que começou com um blog e um perfil no Orkut em 2004, passou pelo Face em 2007 e, hoje, fico pensando qual será a próxima galinha de ouro digital.
Por outro lado, acredito que minha pesquisa – alimentação – também seja um assunto extremamente atual. Mas, considero-a ainda um movimento de influência menor, pelos motivos a seguir:
1) o governo não quer mexer no vespeiro da indústria alimentícia e farmacêutica;
2) frequentemente, as pessoas não querem mudar os hábitos e deixar de comer coisas que nem podem ser chamadas de comida;
3) no Brasil, comida não é tanto questão de escolha, mas, necessidade. Por isso, a dificuldade em mudar.
Enquanto tomamos leite com uréia em nossos pacatos cafés da manhã, mudamos diariamente nossos hábitos de nos comunicar e interagir. Só observo – e me divirto. Compartilharei esse post no Face, claro.
Obs: pretendo mudar radicalmente este blog – principalmente pela invação de spams nos comentários e, claro, pelo fato de este blog estar velho em todos os sentidos. No segundo semestre, novidades ;D
7
dez
2011
To give or to receive?
From the movie Lost in Translation (2003)
Artists and famous people are used to say that they have no privacy and so on. But in the other hand, they are also the ones that love the flashlights from paparazzi whenever they can. So, in some way, eveyone wants to be found, like it is said in Lost in Translation.
This makes me think that the fact that you are not forgotten and not anonymous makes you feel part of the world. And then, Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook, probably thinking that anonymous people wanted to be a celebrity, even if it is only between their 500 friends.
And everyone exposes their best phrases, bodies, pictures, songs, videos. Yeah, we want everyone to Like your life, even if it is miserable after turning off the computer – which is becoming even more difficult now, because people tend to not disconnect at all after Smartphone and their check-ins in Foursquare or Facebook Places.
So, the feeling of emptiness, of the absence of Likes, makes us seeing our reality that, maybe, we are having the same disease as the 15-minute celebrities: we want to be exposed in any circumstance – well, it would be ideal if it is just in our beautiful pictures, trips and clever phrases collected somewhere in the web.
That is why we feel so empty. We gave too much of ourselves into things that are not going to make us a better person. We have this Western tendency to give feelings, emotions, like everyone would like to receive it. Maybe they want, but you do not need to give what you do not have – if you don’t have any inner love, how could you share it? Someone would say the love is the meaning of life. But if you don’t have it, what can you do? Pretend that you have and make a huge effort to expose on social media again?
Maybe it is time to protect ourselves from being exposed, because it can be too late, and we will be acting like the 15-minute celebrity – if we are not already acting like that.
Save some of yourself to give your best from those who really deserves your best.
7
set
2011
“You are a 29-year-old teenager”
Natalie Portman in Closer
This post will be in English as I promised a friend from Taiwan that I met in Recife.
Talking with people from all over the world is one of the most rewarding things that a human being could do to change their principles and dogmas. Specially when we talk with eastern people, which has practically an opposite culture from the western, we realize that our Jewish-Christian philosophy is not the only way to think.
And me, as a half Japanese, tend to suffer from the straight forward western thought to the holistic and Zen thoughts from the eastern.
Let me explain. I spent long, long hours talking to this guy from Taiwan about lots of things and that ended up with one of my favorite subjects – the connection between mind and body, the theme of this blog.
He told me that I talk as a mature women, but act as a…Teenager. Well, I tried to understand what does that mean, because I just cannot understand what exactly do I do to have this both sides inside me.
“I don’t know what do you do, but that is my impression”, he explained.
I passed the rest of the trip in Recife thinking about it, and in my last night in the hostel, a French guy told me exactly the opposite:
“You look like a young girl, but act as a mature women. I could tell you that you have around 29 years old”
I did not feel mad or anything, just got even more intrigued, because three months ago, an old women asked me if I was 14 years old (without talking to me, just by looking).
So, what exactly do you do unintentionally that makes other people create an image about you?
Considering the people’s comments, am I a 29-year-old teenager? It just let me think that, maybe, we are not the way that we think regarding our behavior in society.
Flying back to São Paulo, I sort of understood why some people tend to misunderstood our age and so on (which happens with almost everyone I know): the way I was behaving in the airplane showed one of my teenager-side that I might try to hide, but it ends up appearing in public: lying in a narrow airplane seat, wearing sneakers, jeans and hugging a sweater, I felt asleep as a 29-year-old teenager.
By the way, I am 25 year old.
A movie that reminds me this post is Closer. Natalie Portman is, in the same movie, a sexy woman, a sad girl and a shy teenager – this picture is from a scene that she is in the airport coming back to U.S., totally different from the stripper she used to be.
