Is it? There’s an assumption that once created, these internet spaces are going to get occupied by real people, and that it’s not just inevitable, it’s justified.
And given that this is boingboing and that we’re all happy mutants here, it feels like the opposite of preaching to the choir, maybe more like preaching to the traffic…
Are we destined to socialize electronically in the same way that all fossil fuels that are I the ground now, and could potentially be extracted for profit- these fuels destined to be burned?
It’s not like Twitter pollution can be measured I the same way carbon pollution can, I guess people need to want to measure both before a useful metric could be invented.
What I’ve noticed, is that socializing with human beings in real life is hard. Doing it on the web instead seems much easier. But maybe it’s the human being part that makes it hard, and the easy part is about as significant as the ELIZA program was in the 60’s.
Never? Isn’t that like, umm, some kind of anti-clue? Like trying to simulate random nimbers by avoiding clumping because you think that’s how they go, thus revealing their anti-randomness?
