See: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/147/doctor-love.html
Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love By: Adam L. Penenberg July 1, 2010 Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has discovered, for the first time, that social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains. And that should be a wake-up call for every company. ... "Company," how about community! My sense is that at the hyper-local neighborhood level, the combination of shared proximity, real names, and the emerging findings about social networking in private life allows us to bring the "love" into local public life and community building. Here is an example from yesterday on my neighbors forums - http://e-democracy.org/se : From: Patricia Since we got water in the basement with the abundance of rain, I am in need of a bed (just a mattress would help) . Twin - queen size. Clean (no bugs, of course!) I know, beds can no longer be sold in 2nd hand shops and I can't afford a new one. If anyone is looking to get rid on one, let me know. Thanks, Patti From: Patricia This system is great. I have a bed-a mattress and a box spring. I had them within 5 minutes of posting.Thank you standish forum! ... This is what can happen when you gather 550 neighbors together online (about 13% of households) - people can and will help each other out. These are the kinds of lessons we are rolling into our http://neighbor.be exploration as well. The key opportunity for those hosting local online groups is to bridge the private life social networking into public life - and not just in middle class home owner rich areas - but inclusively - http://e-democracy.org/inclusion - in all communities. Steven Clift E-Democracy.org Steven Clift - http://stevenclift.com Executive Director - http://E-Democracy.Org Follow me - http://twitter.com/democracy New Tel: +1.612.234.7072 ----------------------------------------- Group home for Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire: http://groups.dowire.org/groups/newswire Replies go to members of Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire with all posts on this topic here: http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/3UC4gmg7H8EFCFybsgZMQw For digest version or to leave Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire, email [email protected] with "digest on" or "unsubscribe" in the *subject*. Newswire - Steven Clift's Democracies Online Newswire is hosted by Democracies Online - http://dowire.org.
