Who among us hasn't sent an impolitely-worded, sloppy email and then regretted having sent it moments later. I don't do it often, but I look over English soccer league chat sites every now and again (never at work, of course), and the banter can get heated and potentially offensive fairly quickly. Social networking and other forms of online interaction require a different set of emotional triggers than face-to-face discussion, and as evidenced by an assault last October involving two men who had been communicating in a chat room, a pickax, and a knife, not appreciating the rules of online engagement can be dangerous (read the NYT article). The absence of real-time responses such as change in tone and other social cues, makes it easier for us to fall victim to the "online disinhibition effect," or flaming. So, what does this mean for those of us who work in this largely self-policing, socially ambiguous landscape? Does this mean that we resign ourselves to being as impersonal as possible for fear of unleasing online rage? Or, maybe it simply means that we just deal with the human emotions behind the IP address, as we do in the real world, and try to be as decent as possible to each other.
From Matt: The scriptwriters made quite a few changes from the book, but they were all for the best - and booklover though I am I have to admit that its better to see magic than to read about it.
From Mina: I adore this film. Monsieur Hulot’s very modern sister and brother-in-law don’t know what to do with Tati’s charmingly untidy and bungling protagonist, who inhabits a world where meaning is still more important than appearances.
From Carey: A must see Hayao Miyazaki’s anime is Laputa: Castle in the Sky, originally released in 1986. A fantasy film that explores the altruistic and compassionate nature of humans, aspects lost through repeated exposure to power, technology, and the complexities brought by the combination of the two. 
It's all because people forget that there's a real person on the other site.
Posted by: internet marketing | May 25, 2010 at 03:09 AM