Authenticity?

I saw this article recently on Authenticity in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, which I thought was pretty interesting- check it out.

Then, I heard this OnPoint radio program titled What is Real? in which host Tom Ashbrook interviews essayist Richard Todd on the "search for the authentic." Clearly, with the proliferation of more and more social networks, authenticity and relationships and how they are understood online are on the minds of many. This is probably what lead me to write my recent post on How I Met Two Interesting People Using Social Media.

What do you think?