I think that summarizes the human experiences fairly well

Meaningful conversation, whether done massively or not takes time and effort from both sides of the conversation.
I think that's why for instance we become a twitter friend vacuum for followers, but then eventually trim the 'twitter fat' and reduce the noise. Our conversations become meaningful by simply focusing our efforts instead of spreading ourselves too thin.
A lesson we all learn the hard way, but a lesson that can only be learned by the hard way.
As always, great thoughts my friend.

What's more interesting is understanding people's following-pattern – and even where this pattern differentiates itself among various services. For instance, my Facebook strategy is different than my Twitter strategy.

I would say that this is a most interesting opportunity to observe!

I think that summarizes the human experiences fairly well

Meaningful conversation, whether done massively or not takes time and effort from both sides of the conversation.
I think that's why for instance we become a twitter friend vacuum for followers, but then eventually trim the 'twitter fat' and reduce the noise. Our conversations become meaningful by simply focusing our efforts instead of spreading ourselves too thin.
A lesson we all learn the hard way, but a lesson that can only be learned by the hard way.
As always, great thoughts my friend.

What's more interesting is understanding people's following-pattern – and even where this pattern differentiates itself among various services. For instance, my Facebook strategy is different than my Twitter strategy.

I would say that this is a most interesting opportunity to observe!

It is a property of people, this “you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours”. But people have also this strange duality between being themselves, as individuals, and being group members.

Michele Martin spoke of homophily last year, and how this could affect they way we interact, learn, and socialise.

I have never been one for clicks or exclusive groups. In fact, I used to campaign against that sort of thing in the folk-club when I was a member way back. But my understanding of how communities seem to operate online has sharply brought my awareness of the significant importance of having a large pool of people in a commentsphere round a blog. I am aware that, as a person I have no real need to gather lots and lots of people about me (I do like to socialise) but as a blogger there's a functional need to have a community in order to blog. Otherwise I'd be as well to write my posts in Word and save them to the hard drive – it just doesn't work the same

Catchya later