Our individual happiness, the quality of our relationships and community well-being are closely interconnected

Hello Sunday Morning (HSM) has a guiding narrative of replacing dependence on alcohol with the connection of community coupled with the adoption of healthy behaviours. HSM is basic in comparison to Facebook, it does not have the data mining remit that the latter has. It does not have the prompting algorithms to flesh out one's online persona, nor to connect with recalcitrant 'friends' to bring them back into the fold. To do so would be counter to the trust and anonymity that is implicitly required by the majority of its users. HSM is a space where the roles that Laurie McNeill explores; Humanism, Post-humanism & the Cyborg and how they work on the internet, is limited mostly to a Humanist perspective (McNeill, 2012). It is the role of personal agency and the affirmation of one's own abilities to overcome the pressures to drink that places HSM squarely in the Humanism role. I would further argue that HSM accesses Humanism via the Cyborg in the use of the internet and the technologies used to access it as Amber Case does in her TED talk. It is a space in cyberspace that gives far flung people from across the globe into the shared safe place that is HSM.  

 

HSM is a platform to make connections with others and as pointed out by Victoria it would be posthuman but I argue that it engages the humanist in it's users. That is "[t]he self is singular, autonomous, self-determining" after the validation of their peers on HSM (Kuttainen, 2016). Clive Hamilton explores the folly of seeking happiness in consumerism and things here on The Conversation. HSM is a place where those seeking refuge from the siren call of bars, off licenses and advertising can not get to them. 

Case, A. (December, 2011). Amber Case: We are all cyborgs now. Retrieved from https://www.ted.com/talks/amber_case_we_are_all_cyborgs_now?language=en?utm_source=tedcomshare&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=tedspread. 

Kuttainen, V. (2016). BA1002 Networks, Narratives, and the Making of Place: Stories of Place: Networked Narratives.

McNeill, L. (2012). There is no "I" in netowork: Social networking sites and posthuman auto/biography. Biography 35 (1). 65-82.

            Shutterstock (n.d.).
Our individual happiness, the quality of our relationships and community well-being are closely interconnected. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/pursuing-happiness-its-mostly-a-matter-of-surviving-well-together-42892