Nathan Hamiel wrote: > > I will say the value of these supposed social connections to someone > you can never meet is very low and nearly worthless. You don't > really know anyone until you meet them in person. Whether you > believe that or not is up to you. In my 17 years of experience with > online communities, BBSes, mailing lists, etc. this has been a firm > constant. > > > You really don't "know" people you are meeting them in person either. > There were some people who lived in communities with Dennis Rader, > worked with him, and even let their children stay the night at his > house. They would swear up and down they knew him and that he was a good > man. WRONG.
There is nothing in your statement that will change my own experience. > Technically you don't really know your teachers or professors either. > What if you take an online class? It doesn't mean because you never meet > them in person that they don't have something to offer you. It's the > same with your other social connections as well. You don't need to truly > know them in order to benefit from them. None of the previous stated > technologies you mentioned had the impact then that social networks have > today. We live in a rapidly changing technology driven world. We have > to concede that some of the changes aren't like previous experiences we > have had. We can embrace the technology and learn to use it to our > advantage or we can become irrelevant technology dinosars and tell kids > how computers used to use punch cards :) So abandon things that work just because something new comes along? Certain fundamentals don't change when you hit the "Friend" or "Follow" buttons. -- Kyle Gonzales [email protected] GPG Key #0x566B435B Read My Tech Blog: http://techiebloggiethingie.blogspot.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
