What the Rest of the World (Probably) Thinks About the Fascination With Social Media

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An example, below …

I too am less interested in the functionality of hash-tags or how many users an application or web service has, but more interested in the long term sociology of the use and impacts of social media online as that use and impact unfold.

Thanks to the Eschaton blog.

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Technology Discussions Can Be Kinda Weird 

My travels have been, in part, to attend this conference. Current panel discussion is ranging from the persistence of identity in the online world to the appropriate use of hashtags in twitter. I find such talk interesting to some degree, but when it geeks out a bit too much I also find it to be a bit odd.

I do think there’s a tremendous not very understood generation gap forming between those who grew up online and those who didn’t, along with the class-based digital divide within generations.

I guess what I’m saying is I think the sociological discussion is fascinating, the geeky discussion not so much. 

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