If you're not social in real life, will social life on the internet be much different? I am always asking: what's the difference? I find much of what happens on the web to be exactly the same as in real life.
I often rethink what I say; on the web, what I write can take a long time to get out, and we can write paragraphs, pages, novels - then retract and never send any of it (I promise not to do that with this post).
An important part of the web spaces we create needs to be safety, an issue that comes up in almost everyone's "cons" of technology. How we create that safe space on the web is not that much different that in a room full of people: we need a set of rules to play by, a mediator if not an absolute authority, and something to aspire to. Perhaps peer pressure can be the most powerful force for good in this arena: pressure that suppresses negative impulses and rewards the positive growth of individuals and groups.
But I don't know how to facilitate this. I honestly don't. I do my best in my family and my workplace and I have done great but I have yet to codify the process except in generalities which sound really fluffy. I think I can do (it), but I really have no idea how.
Should I really post this?
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Fluffy is good.
ReplyDeleteI think you should post it. Participate. No sitting in the back row, silent and (dangerous)waiting. You can do it because you are doing! I am sure there are some great quotes about the illusion of safety, but I know risk is a subject to consider in all fields of study. Risk is in rooms full of bodies and in lonely isolated cliffs.