'Serenity'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Yup - when we got our hands on printing presses, we made handbills and booklets. It's the technology that's changed, not the behavior.
I have in my head that someone has done some sort of study documenting the social evolution of the typical online community, and it includes a "hey, we should meet in meat space" phase.
Plus, I bet if I asked -t (which I am not), I would have chicken soup at my door in a little over 2 hours.
when TB took pho to Hec's ex-GF when she was new in Portland and didn't know anyone (including TB).
and an Easter basket.
I just told someone the other day that Emerson was just a low-tech blogger, and that Jefferson and Hamilton worked out the Constitution and Bill of Rights over a low tech flame-war. Same shit, different century.
::loves Allyson::
That's true, Lee. Should that ever become useful.
What's interesting to me about the whole changes-to-how-people-socialize thing is that it seems to echo what happened around the Enlightenement and Industrial Revolution, when people started organizing themselves in Societies and Clubs based on interests (Natural History or Astronomy or Abolition or whatever) that crossed class lines and allowed people to form friendships with people who weren't family members or neighbors or in the same church.
Whenever someone says that some new thing is happening that is destroying society, it always seems to have happened before.
-t! Shouldn't you be on your way southward soon?
Yup. Leaving in mere moments. Getting ready took a little longer than I thought it would...as it generally does.
I have to say that I think that the reason this on-line community is strong is because people have actually managed to meet face to face and continue to do so on a fairly regular basis.
Meanwhile, those of us, like me, who have been unable to attend most of those actual meetings do feel a bit on the outside.
I still have to explain how I can care so deeply for people I've "only met twice"
preens in the having met sumi corner
If memory doesn't fail me I met sumi while doing the Once More With Feeling sing a long in Chicago. It was only a few months after I found this group. Ok, getting all sentimental now.