Feeling social...Not! I beg your pardon I never asked you for a walled garden.

I'm suffering claustrophobia. 

I've been in more walled gardens than your average Victorian era child  , if you believe those movies, these last  six months.  I'm also trying to assimilate  research on  "social proof"  and how that carries over to online.  It's way  too early on that to have an opinion that's worthwhile but it's  leading me towards  the  diminution  of the search engine as a destination site in favor of communities were nearly any search worth doing has already  been done.  Sound  like 2.0'ish  propaganda?    

Here's some 10.2 propaganda,

I long for the day when  my phone , implant,  hud, w-e as long as it's not in suppository form ( Windows is a big enough pain in the ass)  knows I am standing outside of an eatery   and it drags in the menu, health scores, reviews and  basically feeds me  the kind of info that's brought into existence by my proximity to  lunch time.  Now  who is going to do that for me?   5k of my  best  Facebook buddies?   I don't think so.   The real question is whose going to program  us ?  I-robot or I- Google? 

Back to this part of consensual reality. 

Mahalo's not a bad idea but it's too broad for me  and I don't get the feeling that it's people like me , I like people like me , I trust me  and seemingly  the  research  backs up my likelihood to believe "me" more which is something I've found  on many forums,  many game and a few meetup groups but =never= in  the morass of anonymity that's the Facebooks and Myspaces of the world.   E.g   despite the local  groups  on  most services  it's hard to tell  which city you are  surfing, you'd never make that mistake on Craig's list then again they don't own like they "own you"   I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere. 

One a wiser and more awake person can wrangle with.






 
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