Greenfield makes some great points, Jeff. Thanks for that link to his "Antisocial Networking" rant.
Looking at this from the standpoint of anthropology, I think there's something inevitable about how we're wrestling with some of these details just a few years after we've functionally connected ourselves in real time to the entire world (or those relatively few inhabitants of the world who can afford the time and technology to play along). When we superimpose new technology on a pre-existing convention, it becomes a sort of metaphor for that convention. But a web page is not in fact a "page" at all. Our "friends" on MySpace are not really friends, and the word "apple" is not an apple. The metaphor is profoundly useful for our understanding of any new thing -- if we don't forget it's a metaphor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=25387 ________________________________________________________________ *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
