You don't have to listen to better music -- just lie about it on Facebook

Social media isn't really about a new way of communicating, it's a new way of expressing all the weird little quirks that make us human.

Today's AHA! moment came from a story that illustrates a couple of ways people are circumventing Facebook's penchant for spreading our personal news and preferences all over the place.

Guilty pleasures suddenly become public pleasures. Wouldn't I be embarassed if my friends discovered I listen to Il Divo, or Leroy Anderson, when I should be savouring the complex pleasures of Elliott Carter?

Wouldn't you know it, there's now a service available that will mask your true listening pleasures on Facebook with a fake playlist that can help you tailor your image to whatever you feel your peer group would best approve of.

Check out the details here.

Comments

[Scott Belyea]

"...Facebook's penchant for spreading our personal news and preferences all over the place."

There's the silliness ... blame Facebook. If your preferences are "all over the place," it's because you've spread them. It's like blaming speeding tickets on my car because it can go above the speed limit.

And if you spread your preferences around and then want to falsify them ... well , go for it. Not the way I'd want to live, but there's no accounting for taste. :-)

[Cynthia Vigil]

Interesting! There is actually a lot of features social media now provides people either to help them become true to themselves or do something to mask their true selves. Still, it's all fun.