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The growth of social networks — and the Internet as a whole — stems largely from an outpouring of expression that often feels more like “talking” than writing: blog posts, comments, homemade videos and, lately, an outpouring of epigrammatic one-liners broadcast using services like Twitter and Facebook status updates
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“In tribal cultures, your identity is completely wrapped up in the question of how people know you,” he says. “When you look at Facebook, you can see the same pattern at work: people projecting their identities by demonstrating their relationships to each other. You define yourself in terms of who your friends are.”
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In tribal societies, forging social bonds is a matter of survival; on the Internet, far less so.
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As more of us shepherd our social relationships online, will this leveling effect begin to shape the way we relate to each other in the offline world as well?
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will the strength of our real-world friendships grow diluted as we immerse ourselves in a lattice of hyperlinked “friends”?
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Rachel C“Orality is participatory, interactive, communal and focused on the present. The Web is all of these things.”
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