Mark: "I just can't imagine that my mutterings or mundane observations would be of any interest to someone as I broadcast them."
I with you on that and I've wondered why. I do think there is a lot to be drawn from Jerome Ryckborst's anthropological take in the other thread - http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=23528#23563 I'm a lot like my father when it comes to a lack of motivation to mutter, make small talk, 'tweet' in social scenarios, and he like his father, however other people in the town I grew up certainly made up for that. My theory is that the twittering phenomenon is time/space agnostic. The current generation of cloud communication tools are just re-enabling needs that have not been satisfactorily met since humans moved out of the village town hall, pub "where everyone knows your name", post office, etc.. Mark: "The elimination of geography and time in socially connecting is proving quite valuable and will no doubt have a profound effect on us going forward." I agree but I'd turn that around. Where the comforting security of village life was a double edged sword, -everyone- knew your business, little control over privacy. We now have more say over what people know about us, and control over who is in our own personal community village. The profound change as I see it will come in an increase in personal social capital and a general trend up in collective happiness (which I understand has been in decline since the 1950's) More on Social Capital; http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/primer.htm and I see this book mentioned a lot, haven't read it though: http://www.bowlingalone.com/ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://gamma.ixda.org/discuss?post=23553 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
