According to the 19th century, danish philosopher and writer Søren Kierkegaard, the human person is more or less opaque to others, and this is probably the view held by most persons, in western societies, today – that you can never “know” a person fully. Of course you can predict a person based on your relation and your ability for inductive/deductive thinking, but a person is in a deep sense basically alone. One of the treats of the Internet is that your potential social network is at least a million times bigger than before. Even if every person is unique, all features of that uniqueness separately exists in other persons somewhere in the world. Internet makes it possible to connect to others with the same features as a part of their uniqueness. The potential for this kind of connections is endless. The new social is going to change the view of the ‘person’ radically over the next decades, and most people does not have a sense of how extraordinary this will be from a historical viewpoint. Whatever experience you have, there are others who had the same experience, and still others who will have this experience in the future. The “new social” does not replace the “social”, it adds a dimension to it. Some chose to resent the new social, some chose to ignore it, some embrace it. My take is a mix of the first and the last. The middle way here is not the “golden mean”, but an inclination for nihilism.

[A text for my thesis...]