Evan Prodromou wrote: > RhinoKitty wrote: > >> "MySpace and Facebook are like Romeo and Juliet," he said. "If Romeo is >> on one system, and Juliet is on the other, then there is no way they will >> ever become friends." Evan Prodromou >> > That's kind of a clumsy formulation. I think I said something more like, > "Social networks are the modern Romeo and Juliet story. If Romeo is on > Facebook and Juliet is on MySpace, there's no way that they can ever be > together."
A plague on both your houses! > Bradley's response was something like, "So, are you saying that the only > answer to free network services is ritualized suicide?" Come on now, their suicides were spur of the moment! (They were also acting on bad information.) Evan's allusion is a good one, and my reading is that he's located the tragedy in the right place. Romeo can't be with Juliette because they are Montagues and Capulets. - - christopher
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