Pomo blablabla or real information?
Here’s more from the same anonymous commenter on Zephoria:
This incertitude to understand someone, even close, demands two things, and the fact that youngsters grew up facing this problem explains why they have commpletely adopted these behaviors:
– prefered communatarism, strong identity markups beyond the usual “prefered music” categories, ties to others as a social branding: you need those both to lower your cost to be situated, and to be surronded be people who can understand you faster and better;
– transparency, a concerning transparency: youngsters prefer to show to anyone they adress, scheduleanything because they know they won’t know why it will be used for (and they trust openness); setting up a availability rule is too tedious (and artificial: you have to justifiy the rules you want to be followed) and closing one’s access will mostly prevent relatives to find you back; well, you won’t hear about the other ones anyway. . .
I had trouble parsing this but got something out of it despite the annoying mannerism of its own social branding. (the social branding of no upper-case letters makes things hard to read, danah!)…
I got to Zephoria’s post on Wikipedia via a link from David Weinberger, who has a new issue of JOHO online….
…now with a Wikipedia-themed bogus contest…
so even though I am in theory working hard on my own talk for Wikimana, whose title should maybe have referenced Paris Hilton rather than quantum mechanics, but I didn’t think of that when I was writing my abstract….
…it’s only 8 a.m., and I need to refocus.