Social Networking through the Ages
2008-01-12 09:19AM PST/Home
Stephen Fry's post on Social networking through the ages adds a healthy dash of perspective.
My point is this: what an irony! For what is this much-trumpeted social networking but an escape back into that world of the closed online service of 15 or 20 years ago? Is it part of some deep human instinct that we take an organism as open and wild and free as the internet, and wish then to divide it into citadels, into closed-border republics and independent city states?