On Friday 18 April 2008, Tea BeeDi wrote: [snip] > Several reasons for sharing. First like ss indicated kind of: its > sharing. I have a feeling Silk can do a longer list of 'why share', > than I can imagine. Maybe its a generational thing :) ss got it! like > sharing when computer was not an individual commodity - also, when email > was not! Also TVs in the villages and small towns used to be shared, > now with ipods each person has their personal entertainment station. Do > we need to sit together and watch something? Went to a movie couple > of days ago with friends. Why is that strange enough to mention even?
My interest (and the bit of my brain that plays devil's advocate, the bastard), is piqued. For one, TVs and movies are one-way media, so the analogy is not great - they do not erase the identity of either party. OTOH, Tee BeeDi, when posts are not attributed to a single person, is the average of all its contributing identities. A sort of chaotic hive mind, simultaneously intelligent, decent, insightful and an anonymous troll. I think this is awesome in theory, though in practice it could clearly become difficult to communicate with it. > Also, when you are into activism or such. It is a safety that you are one > of potentially many who represent the email id. Is there? You are sharing the responsibility of your own words (providing deniability, I suppose), but also taking on your share of the responsibility of the words of all others. (You are all TBD^H^H^HSpartacus!) -Taj.
