Facebook Roleplaying
The advent of group networking technology has wide our capability to communicate, adding subtle dimensions to the way we send and receive information. On the cutting edge of this new paradigm are the storytellers. Utilizing multimedia communication portals such as Facebook and other group networks, they are pioneering new realms of creativity. |
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The idea of roleplaying is de facto about telling an interactive story. You get together with a group of people, each one of you takes on the identity of a character, and then you act out the story, each of you contributing you own ideas for the direction that you should all go in. Social networks such as Facebook were created to allow population to tell stories. You are supposed to use them to tell the story of you real life, through the use of pictures, videos, and written submissions in a collection of forms. This storytelling function can also be used to generate fictional tales. By signing up as a character, you can use all of the applications commonly reserved for real people, to express the life story of the fictional person. This story can then be wide by interactions with other characters, or even with real population over the network. In this way the tale becomes interactive, with new life being breathed into it by a collection of creative minds. Facebook and most of the other group networks are not intended to be used for fiction. In fact their terms of assistance will often include injunctions requiring whatever who creates an inventory to do so under their own name and associated with their real identity. While these rules are not commonly stringently enforced, they still make it difficult to engage in creative endeavors on these sites. Social networks are a new frontier in the art of communication. Using them as a medium for telling stories is a trend that is just starting to catch on. As the sophistication of the technology increases the capability to generate fictional works using these tools is only going to improve. Facebook Roleplaying |
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Facebook Roleplaying
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