Aka-Aki

Vou­liag­meni, 27, April, 2009 — by Yorgo Nestoridis

Aka-Aki takes Social Net­work­ing to your mobile phone! Where ever you are, you are con­nected to your friends, you can locate where they are within 50 km. Never miss a friend again down­town, in a crowd or where ever you hap­pen to be.

Aka-Aki is a mobile net­work­ing tool you down­load to your mobile phone. It will locate your aka-aki enabled friends.

FAQ Page.

Tech­nol­ogy enhances the devel­op­ment of our 21st cen­tury Net­work Soci­ety where every­one can be directly linked with every­one and where every­one is ulti­mately con­trolled by … every­one. (The small vil­lage principle).

Online Per­sonal Data Pro­files, behav­ioral pro­files, links and access, con­nec­tions, it’s all work­ing into the same direc­tion and it looks a if, with the rise of the net­work soci­ety, we pro­gram its fall, unless we can get rid of the emo­tional bag­gage we are drag­ging with us.

Today we may feel that Google or Face­book or other large net­work own­ers play the role of the Big Brother like did ear­lier the KGB, CIA, StaSi or such like orga­ni­za­tions set up by the polit­i­cal power in place to keep the ele­ments of soci­ety on put. Today, the local admin­is­tra­tion knows less about its sub­jects than Face­book and such like net­works and a shift of power is notice­able in as much as influ­ence, mind con­trol and opin­ion lead­er­ship is concerned.

Com­mu­ni­ca­tion

Democ­racy online

Social Net­works can con­sti­tute a great counter power if they are directed into the right future. Social net­works could only expand in a world where humans feel restricted, unsat­is­fied and lack­ing  free­dom of expres­sion or com­mu­ni­ca­tion. Social Net­works also put away social bar­ri­ers which may lock peo­ple into a social cast sys­tem select­ing accord­ing to eco­nomic, beauty, ‘pop­u­lar­ity’ and such like cri­te­ria. Pop­u­lar­ity in Social Net­works found a new definition.

In many ways democ­racy is when the power is with the peo­ple and when peo­ple can con­tribute to the direc­tion social and polit­i­cal evo­lu­tion will take. Elec­tions are too slow of a process to sat­isfy peo­ples fast chang­ing opin­ions. It’s not about elect­ing lead­ers, it’s more about sin­gle issues where peo­ple want to have their say.

Politi­cians, elected lead­ers can be influ­enced by pub­lic opin­ion. Polls don’t do the trick really any­more since the crowd on Face­book becomes more rep­re­sen­ta­tive and influ­en­tial than any Poll. Lead­ers such as Barack Obama or the French Pres­i­dent Sarkozy have noticed that and draw con­clu­sions from this shift of social behav­ior by build­ing per­sonal net­works in Face­book and such like.

The Ques­tion is: are Social Net­works used and abused by their own­ers or will they in the future con­tinue to allow allow free net­work­ing, expres­sion and unbi­ased pub­lish­ing of opinions?

If yes, then we may move for­ward to the past, where democ­racy was based on per­ma­nent con­sul­ta­tion with con­stituents. An inter­est­ing Concept!

A hypo­thet­i­cal Net­work Soci­ety, where vir­tual and phys­i­cal become one requires how­ever to break down a few more bar­ri­ers, namely on the emo­tional side of things.

The notion of Pri­vacy has not much room in such a soci­ety, where every­thing is pub­licly exposed. Exhi­bi­tion of your soul is the name of the game, aban­don of your emo­tional foot print and iden­tity to be replaced by … show­time. Life plays on stage where we man­age the pro­file, looks and behav­ior, where we style our per­sonal exhi­bi­tion­ism in func­tion of lik­a­bil­ity fac­tors and where the rat race con­sists in beat­ing the com­peti­tors on behav­ioral and per­sonal pro­fil­ing schemes as stored and defined in the data bases of large net­works such as Facebook.

Sen­si­tiv­ity about pri­vacy, about what is right and what is wrong, about per­sonal pref­er­ences will change. Tol­er­ance lev­els will change and online ghet­tos will expand. Tomor­row you will not need to com­mit mur­der and phys­i­cal war to elim­i­nate your enemy, you blast him from the face of Face­book with a few mouse-clicks.

Tomor­row, if you are not like a dog on the leash of Social Net­works and all your ‘friends’ there, you will be a nobody, a sad exis­tence some­where between a plant and an ani­mal. Cyber­men will form the ‘real soci­ety’ and only who is con­nected and trace­able has a chance of par­tic­i­pat­ing in this new society.

New opin­ion lead­ers will emerge and use and abuse the new power; not intel­li­gence and vision will dom­i­nate but show­time and mar­ket­ing, dem­a­gogy and mind con­trol will pre­vail. The power of expres­sion and com­mu­ni­ca­tion will have to become a main topic at school. For­get about your sen­si­tiv­i­ties, just go out and fish in the huge pool and build your own lit­tle soci­ety or adhere to other mini soci­eties to take your due spot in this new world.

Is this the world you want to build and live in tomorrow?

The great idea about the Cyber Soci­ety hurts itself on an impor­tant stum­bling block, at least for the time being: we are humans with a cer­tain genetic and emo­tional pro­file. Human needs are, at least for the time being, not restricted to life on stage and there is more between heaven and earth than just a per­sonal and behav­ioral online pro­file serv­ing as con­nec­tor between unlim­ited num­bers of other cyber-profiles.

Life on stage has this par­tic­u­lar thing: once on stage, every­one prof­its from ini­tial good­will. From there, you can only lose, as soon as you talk, sing, write or express your­self in any pos­si­ble way. Your con­tri­bu­tions to cyber-society can back-fire faster than you shoot and your future, also in low-tech envi­ron­ments may be jeop­ar­dized because of inap­pro­pri­ate con­tent you may have loaded or inap­pro­pri­ate con­tent being made avail­able about you online.

The power of Social Net­works may well become a mat­ter of pub­lic con­cern and state inter­ven­tion will be the con­se­quence. Inter­est­ingly, the state is well advised to ini­ti­ate the move using … social net­work marketing.

Socal Net­work Mar­ket­ing con­sists in find­ing a way of influ­enc­ing masses towards or against issues of con­cern. Mobi­liz­ing the masses through social net­works will allow pub­lic author­i­ties to gain the power back as only the pub­lic pow­ers will be able to pro­tect indi­vid­ual social net­work users from the abuse of exactly those fea­tures which have lead to the rise of social networks.

For the time being, let’s enjoy them and exper­i­ment with daily new fea­tures and appli­ca­tions allow­ing peo­ple to con­nect and to stay in touch. And let’s learn how to pub­lish our pro­files and mes­sages in an effi­cient way on Social Net­works and our own sites.

At a later stage we must become more crit­i­cal and select well, which appli­ca­tions we should use to serve OUR pur­pose best. Our kids will need our best guidance!

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