[Albion Wilde]

I'm snacking on chips and guacamole and drinking a Shasta cola. My Westie is sitting in her little doggie bed at the foot of my bed and I'm watching Fox News while posting stuff on FreeRepublic.com. My wife is working out in the garden and asking me what I want for dinner. More later.

Well, I just posted my vacation photos to my wall!

[Prospero]

The fact of the matter is, the "That's not the way you do it" television advertisement, the three senior ladies and the pictures on her "wall," etc., gets the knowing yucks from the kids, but that situation is not really far from the Facebook reality. The stream of boob bait ("Forward this to your friends if you love Jesus," etc.) has become another Internet firehose. Good luck getting a sip of water.

That medium is based on an illusion of intimacy, of fellowship and community. There's nothing there, there

Did a great deal of experimentation, real political paid work in '07 and '08 researching that medium, particularly Facebook and Twitter, and came to the conclusion, with notable exceptions, both companies are doomed to the same fate as the Chat Rooms on the old AOL. MySpace will soon no longer be gathering dust with the Commodore '64's

People don't need either medium to keep up with the maximum 100 or so people any single average human can keep tabs on. It takes a while for the dazzled to catch on. The young kids turned away as soon as Mom or Dad, or their grandparents, signed up.

There is a noise level and a law of resonance, a social wave function for some people, that collapsed three or four years ago. Facebook and Twitter are dead for people in love with reality.