Seriously, What's Wrong With Me???

geomom
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:03:41 +0000

Great thread. I think CC is like hanging out with friends. I love all the
interesting perspectives here.

I am still trying to get a grip on what a bulletin
board is as a social form. Is it like a party, with little groups talking
about different things? But it’s not like a party because everything you say
is recorded, so that if you say something deeply incoherent (I’ve had a few of those, I still cringe), there it is forever. So is it more like letters to the
editor? No, it’s way more lively than that. Finally, I decided that we all
are co-authors writing the first draft of one large rambling book. I like that.

Then I became interested in what the younger generation would say. I asked
DS1 (10 years old) “Hey, you have a lot of posts on that bulletin board
you go on. How many?” “About 3000,” he says. Wow, I’m talking to an expert!
“So, do you think a bulletin board is more like a conversation, or a party, or
what?”

“Mom, it’s like a joke,” he says. “So you find posting humorous?” “No,” he says,
“it’s like a joke because you ruin it by trying to analyze it.”

Oh.