a little passage from Warren Ellis on social software from his Die Puny Humans! blog:
And I said, that’s all very well, but having run a massive forum for four and a half years, I think you have to accept that email lists are an old, low-fi technology, and you can create tight community bonds by making the community space a destination, rather than a constellation of live points, and one where people can express visually. Once you see a person’s face, where they live and what they do, the tone of the interaction changes. The net became The Big Electronic Arguing Machine because everyone is anonymous. People find it easier to abuse people they don’t know — depersonalised figures on the other end of the line. Images change online community interaction in a radical way. (And I’ve married more people than Reverend Moon because of it.)
i love me some Ellis, i do. while you’re at it, why don’t you read the whole post?
update: Warren Ellis interview @ Slashdot.
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It’s easier for people who DO know each other to abuse one another if they don’t have to look the person in the eye while they’re doing it.
i hate you.
see! wasn’t that easy?
I think that it’s much easier whether you know someone or not to be nasty through email/online. After all, you’re both a couple of bastards. haha Many kiddings! :)
That about sums it up. BITCH. Bitchy McBitchesalot. Nyah!
I think that’s clear. :)
…don’t quite get your meaning. WHORE.
Captain Littledick…I don’t get paid for what I do so that makes me a SLUT, not a whore. Learn the difference! Amateur.
And I don’t come down to where you work and slap the dick out of your mouth, so don’t call ME an amateur.
SNAP!
anyone could even tell that your dick was their mouth! I’ll let you know if I’m ever in need of a toothpick. Thanks anyway.
It seemed to not reply to the jibe of the previous post, and the name belies an obvious dislike for the Chinee and other “Oriental” cultures. I can only surmise by your last response that you are some kind of Communist Mexican. You are ruining America.
Actually, no, I’m one of those fascists that’s ruining America! hahahaha
Maybe Hitler didn’t have the wrong idea.
actually I’m one of those new-type fascists, Hitler was wrong, but *I* am right. There are people in this world that are inherently inferior, he just had the wrong ones. Convenient, isn’t it?
On to the next post. Continue making a mockery of Ben’s site. Readygo.
naughty nu-nu’s.