I'm back. wrote:
> (Dan Landau) wrote in news:20602-4E7D3668-1801
> @baytvnwsxa001.msntv.msn.com:
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>>HI- I am not married yet, and I am a guy- does that make me wierd?
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> That you have to ask, and post it on a world wide medium..... YES.
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Is it?
IMO the real social protocols of "The Net" are yet to be established,
even (if not especially) in any folkloric way. Apparently, at this time
its all a more Hyde park corner, soap box sort of thing, this
unmoderated (and much of moderated) "usenet" is just a bunch of
individual soap boxes people are yelling from, free speech and all that,
though i suppose the analogy holds that "The Net" itself is just one
giant soap box that can accommodate billions of people screaming their
own thoughts at each other.
Given a big enough soap box smaller groups of people could wander off
and form more congenial or even focused groups, not unlike "'real life"
which, i have long thought, "The Net" has to be held to a higher
standard than "Real Life" at least at this time of its rudimentary
beginning.
Its a wonderful research tool but its "social networking" aspect is
becoming more and more suspect to me
"The Net" may be, metaphorically, the "unsub" of popular t.v. crime
fiction, I seem to see public discourse tending more and more to
resemble the proverbial "flame wars" of unmoderated usenet.
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JL