[ExI] The entropy of Extropy-Chat

[Jeffery P. Davis]

>        > Any way you look at it, mailing lists are in a state of decline
> because e-mail is becoming less popular as a medium...
>
> It has its enduring value, analgous to telephones today.
>


Well of course *we* think that, given that we're using e-mail to conduct
this
discussion.  The question is whether up-and-coming generations feel that
way.

It seems to me the need to have an e-mail address is slowly going away.
I've encountered
an increasing number of sites that ask you to link a facebook account rather
than authenticate an
e-mail address.

I don't even know the e-mail address of a lot of people I interact with
frequently online, it's just never come up.
I've never asked and they've never offered.



>
> In this case it is good, for we hold both of our other two Jeffs in high
> esteem.  Can we call you Jeffery?  Then we have Jef, Jeff and Jeffery.  I
> know how it goes with common names.  I am Greg Jones, so nearly 30 yrs ago
> I
> became Spike Jones.  Then later I found out there was a proto-Weird Al
> Yankovich sort from the 1950s who had that name.  Doh!
>


You can call me whatever you want, just don't call me late for dinner!

<rimshot>

I actually don't have any particular attachment to my name, either.  If it
wasn't
such a hassle I'd probably change my name about as often as I change my
e-mail
address...once every 2-3 years.  It's kind of strange people have particular
attachments
to names that were given to them by others.


Uhoh, I am sooo not hip.  Do explain the affluence gap between Facebook and
> Myspace.  I refuse to participate in either, but didn't realize one was for
> rich and other for poor.  Is that what you meant?
>


One can't be expected to know *everything* about internet culture, of
course.  It's
a general ignorance I was lamenting, considering how internet culture is
starting to drive
popular culture.

Facebook is frequented by a more affluent audience that fled from Myspace
when the former
became open-registration.  Myspace is now primarily frequented by black
urban youth and
poor whites.  You might even argue the Myspace exodus was a form of white
flight as the medium
became more popular with black youth.  Vast simplification, but that's
basically how the cards fall.
You see a lot of upper middle-class folks on Facebook of the kind you almost
never found on myspace.


-- 
"This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be
other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be
based on war and games. All games are basically hostile. Winners and losers.
We see them all around us: the winners and the losers. The losers can
oftentimes become winners, and the winners can very easily become losers.."
- William S. Burroughs
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