Jennifr.net: There is no such thing as a crap city, only a crap network!
CannonGod
· 4 months ago
This right here is why Facebook is such a lump of shit. It's the ultimate anti-social network. Some may say those honors should go to MySpace, but Facebook is EXACTLY THE FRIKKIN' SAME AS MYSPACE - just in a smart blue suit. If you want a great online community I'd highly recommend FriendFeed. Like Twitter, but less Meta :)
jayjay
· 4 months ago
Amazingly, I wasn't referring to any web platform - at all - when I wrote this. But reading back, it could totally apply to Facebook. Too many strong ties and your network don't grow beyond the locale and the historical - opening things up, lets you see new things, meet other people and go further than before. It works in so many different ways. I think my Scottish network will be so much better now that I've mastered the transferable art of forming weaker ties. Thanks Leicester for demonstrating the art of open source relationship building! ;-)
Ben
· 4 months ago
Great post. Gandhi said "You must be the change you want to see in the world".
Having said that, perhaps it is possible for a whole city to develop a culture of bitching which might make it really difficult for an individual to make things better for themself.
Better get networking I guess!
jayjay
· 4 months ago
Cheers Ben! :-)
This is major progression for me as I was convinced since I was a little girl that the reason I didn't "fit in" was because I was forced to sit with people and therefore forced to be part of a group I had nothing in common with. Partly true, but nice to see that there are tools and platforms online that allow people to "get to know each other" at a distance and plug themselves into lightly connected networks that they feel that they want to part of. Not just people they've lived beside, or worked with or studied with - which in online terms is what sites like Facebook reinforce.
I can feel very lonely when all you see of a city and town is drunk-zombies and primark-robots but there is so much more beyond it and you just have to dig around a bit and take a bit more risk.
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Having said that, perhaps it is possible for a whole city to develop a culture of bitching which might make it really difficult for an individual to make things better for themself.
Better get networking I guess!
This is major progression for me as I was convinced since I was a little girl that the reason I didn't "fit in" was because I was forced to sit with people and therefore forced to be part of a group I had nothing in common with. Partly true, but nice to see that there are tools and platforms online that allow people to "get to know each other" at a distance and plug themselves into lightly connected networks that they feel that they want to part of. Not just people they've lived beside, or worked with or studied with - which in online terms is what sites like Facebook reinforce.
I can feel very lonely when all you see of a city and town is drunk-zombies and primark-robots but there is so much more beyond it and you just have to dig around a bit and take a bit more risk.