I love the craigslist poke. Just as there is colorblindness, there is also design blindness, interactive blindness, typography blindness. So many of the things we fixate on.... users are completely oblivious to, or don't particularly care about having a high threshold for stuff that would drive us batty. People who use craigslist's expectations are...they are likely pretty happy with printed newspaper classified, which I'm sure for most on this list seem antiquated. For them It's good enough, they don't have to think much.
I'm am well connected on the web. I myspace with a musician profile and personal, friendster, orkut, linked in,okcupid, livejournal (180 friends), lastfm, pandora, mp3.com, have several blogs. .2 Years ago I did a breakdown of time spent on social networks and rewards received the conclusion was...I stopped using them for the most part as a frequent social medium. Like life after TV, I've found that there is still a high quality of life, and connection with the friends and issues that matter. Secondly similarly to when giving up TV, I notice that the medium becomes the ends. e.g. Some Warhammer gamers (addicts) have little in common outside of warcraft. Same can be said for any consumerism as glue and increasingly social networks. ________________________________________________________________ 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
