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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

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I think “realness” is what’s required in online communications, just realness according to protocol. One cannot be rude. One cannot be uncouth. One should be tonally perfect when it comes to communicating online but don’t let that stop you — making mistakes (and copping to them, acknowledging them, and accepting them) is normal. But “normalspeak” is essential. Online chat and conversation is not, no matter what anyone tries to sell you, is not formal written communication. It shouldn’t be. It cannot be. Being stiff and inaccessible is almost worst than being tone-deaf.
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 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large7 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Mind you, at the end of the day, America has gotten used to Indian outsources tech support — because Indians tend to be even more charming, thoughtful, patient and kind than the teams they run into here… do we adapted after 10-years. But, if you can’t wait around long enough to change an entire cultural norm, don’t.
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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large8 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?I love that second story. Yes, my buddy from central PA calls it a “slice” or a “cheese slice” — the basic slice is a cheese slice to him. It took me forever to adopt it, though people understood also when I said, “I would like one slide of the cheese pizza please, for here.” I didn’t know the short code, but like when you listen to your dad try to use current slang (and how bad that sounds) sometimes it’s not good to use slang if you’re not from the slang. If it’s not your slang by birthright. Or, worse yet, if your slang is last-season’s slang.
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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large10 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Yes, indeed, Daniel: I didn’t even address self-selective cliques, tribes, families, etc. I was just speaking to the real one (where they were brought up) and the one shared in the Internet. I am not even talking about meta-tribes. What of people who have families that move around a lot. Army brats, diplobrats? Sharcroppers? Etc? What about people who are in recovery and their tribe is AA, NA, OA, SLAA? There are so many. I ride a motorcycle: is that my new identity and tribe? How much do we get to chose and how much is projected onto us?
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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large11 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Well, yes, you’re right, it is a big playground — but even a playground has “right” and “wrong” and has a moral code and has things you should and shouldn’t do. One can offend, hurt, and damage another, even in a playground. In fact, the playground is probably one of our first experience of cause-and-effect. That the way you behave with your sweet parents doesn’t play when you’re interacting with people with different parents, different upbringings, different faiths and origins and colors and origin stories — ethnicity, wealth, education, etc. So, even a playground isn’t a playground unless you’re there along; otherwise, you need to interact with very many other people.
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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large12 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Thank you, Minna. And thanks for sharing this post with your students. Also, as new people enter, based on age (coming of age, being new) or on access (discovering online for the first time, even when older, by vaulting the digital divide or retiring or whatnot), we’re going to have to educate and re-educate people again and again like the 2000 movie “Memento” — though in this case, it isn’t one man, it’s the entire Internet. The Internet is stateless. It doesn’t possess a unified memory. There are newbies coming along every single nanosecond. And we “oldies” need to be patient, loving, kind, and willing to enculturate to the best of our abilities. I love your students!
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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large15 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Matthew, I don’t agree with your comment, “overpopulated country of countless opinions and insensitive faceless folks.” I believe this may be a perception by some but I believe this is more along the lines of “we used to like this neighborhood until it got so ‘diverse’” — people only tend to cry “overpopulation” when they don’t like the sort of people, thoughts, or ideas that’re “taking over.” I am not at all accusing you of this, but it made me think of it: I, myself, don’t like how the Internet has changed since I was on it in 1993 in a big way: first, when AOL was let into USENET newsgroups (when the mental power of the questions spiraled down), then when it became more accessible to other political groups (happened in a big way around 2006) when it went from a haven for the liberal elite and science and became very conservative as well as Christian, and whatnot. And now the diversity continues as the digital divide is razed. It’s growing pains, methinks.
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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large1 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?We might be from a tribe we don’t like, appreciate, or identify with — so we go out looking for another tribe — and the Internet makes that easier and easier and easier. We can now create meta or self-selected tribes. Look at Austin, TX, or Brooklyn, NY, or Portland, OR — or, to be honest, Salt Lake City, UT — they’re all not so much based on family but based on “cult” — the cult of Faith, the cult of the Lifestyle, the cult of Friendship. And those tribes are as faithful, powerful, and willing to defend their own as any on the globe. Case in point: when I messed with the denizens of Second Life. Man, they came streaming out like fire ants to defend their queen, their home, and their way of life.
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The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?

s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large2 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Yes. Even though we play our part of the global family, brought together through the Internet, we’re still very tribal. To the point, the joke goes, that if someone is born just off shore of Charleston, South Carolina, in a fishing boat on a day trip, that baby will never, to its grave, be considered a Charlestonian — it’s not just Greece (or, tribes deep in Afghanistan) who are so jingoistic about who counts as “us” and who is “other.” One of the biggest jokes in America is the phrase, “you ain’t from around here” and that doesn’t change. And it goes both ways. Sometimes, that tribalism doesn’t exists formally, it only exists because you, yourself — we, ourselves — don’t feel a part.
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s GLOBAL COMMUNITY large6 The Online Community Is Inexorably Global: Are You?Thanks for quoting me. May I quote you? “As the internet has become an overpopulated country of countless opinions and insensitive faceless folks, the amount of voices via the internet only exponentially increases.” Here’s another secret. You only think that these people are insensitive faceless folks — they’re not! They’re you! They’re just you with an opinion that doesn’t match your concept of propriety and couth — or your concept of modernity, honor, or justice. And, I hate to say it, but when it comes to one’s perception of the internet as being “an overpopulated country of countless opinions” that only seems to count when you think “those people” are idiots. The downside of zero barrier to entry and universal access is that everyone gets a voice, not merely the educated, the rich, the “civilized” or the “modern” but everyone else, as well. I hate it, too, but I respect it and I love it. But it drives me crazy and I surely preferred the early Internet when everyone was Liberal, overeducated, and a nerd.
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