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.
Dear Future Cyberarchaeologists,
Yes. This is clear evidence of "grouping". Yes, we were aware of it.
Now get off our lawn.
Sumi, we'll have to make sure to coordinate with you better. We should do another Chicago F2F, maybe later in the summer?
Allyson - a shame it is too late to add this rant to your book. Maybe you can ping your editor Monday?
