Frederic

After reading your post, I wondered if the definition of "lifestream" had become official as of yet. I searched dictionary.com (nothing found) and Wikipedia where I only found this unrelated post http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... so you still have time to submit an official defining definition of lifestream which is different than the way the term is being commonly used around the web. :) - Seek Ground

I found that wikipedia definition of lifestream interesting including this excerpt: "During an organism's lifetime, they have experiences from which they gain memories, and once they die, their Spirit Energy returns to the Planet, taking with it the memories of the life form to which it had been attached. These memories in turn give rise to more Spirit Energy, allowing the Planet's spirit as a whole to grow, and the cycle of life to continue." So, to apply this to our online lives: For our online friends who do not know our offline selves, all they have is that bits of ourselves "memories" we leave on the web. Perhaps that is all that posterity will know of many of us as well. So that these memories allow the online "Planet" to grow. Are we leaving it better than we found it? - Seek Ground

Seek - interesting point. I still can't help but think that "lifestreaming" is a strange word to attach to the concept of social media aggregation (and that by itself is an ugly creation). - Frederic

Whether it's aggregation or lifestreaming depends on the intensity of usage of each platform. Some of these services lend themselves well to lifestreaming, and others don't. If you become very active on Twitter, then that grows in importance within your aggregated stream, and the whole thing starts to resemble a lifestream as you've described. I find that people go through phases of low and of high activity. - alex de carvalho

I think netstream is the proper term, and netstream is a part of individual's lifestream. Knowledgestream perhaps it's better than netstream (but it's not so nice to say) - marcantonio

I don't mind the term 'lifestream' - people that think that means real 24/7 meatsphere 'life' are just being obtuse on purpose - maybe 'sharestreaming' - Christopher Galtenberg