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HANGOUT
April 19, 2014
There's a recurrent dream of
The Hangout-- "Pop's Soda Shop",
"Cheers", the Rebel Cafe...
The cafe as a social center, a "third
place" where you can go to make
contact with other like-minded folks.
Hanging around in the places makes it
possible for you to make contact without
taking positive steps to initiate it--
you don't make a date, or call a meeting,
you just go there, and see who else is
around.
An extremely similar dynamic exists
concerning "social media" sites:
nothing prevents you from sending
email to anyone you know,
but it turns out people like to
have a way of offering to communicate
without worrying that they might be
forcing themselves on someone else.
I'm just posting stuff here,
just skip it if you don't care,
I don't mean to bug anyone.
Another variant of the
shy egotist syndrome...
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