Comments on: Hello World: I am so alone here on the internet.

By: Jim Johns

Jim Johns — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:12:01 +0000

Perhaps it’d be different if you moved outside London. London is a big city with 8 million folks, people in big cities do not talk to each other much, its the same where you go in the world.
If you move to a rural village in Devon or Cumbria or the like i am in your everyday life people would greet you and perhaps joke, laugh, and even sometimes meet up. Best to get away from London.

By: Frankie

Frankie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:16:29 +0000

As we go forward with so called advancment in life as a world we seem to become more disconected even more so in the west the sence of family and comunity interacting on a one on one level seems to become more difficult we are to consumed in our own little worlds and not looking at the big picture

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:30:05 +0000

Nemmlig.

By: Nyree

Nyree — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:26:14 +0000

Hi Elin. I just actually found your blog thorugh twitter and had to stop and read as I just wrote my own post to twitter as well. So many people have been doing that lately and yes, it does change things.

What I mean is, I’ve been seeing so many people on my timeline who’s face (or avatar) pops up so frequently when I’m checking in, that it’s really been making me wonder about how socially healthy they actually are…….or maybe I’m just over thinking the entire social media addiction thing. :)

By: andrew Jaffe

andrew Jaffe — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:36:25 +0000

Hi Elin,

Of course you’re right; even traditionally shoe-gazing physicists aren’t loners any more — I work in collaborations of 2 to several hundred people much more often than on my own nowadays. (And anyway I prefer high and lonesome).

And hey, don’t you owe me an email? How about that drink finally? (Have to choose somewhere other than the Ritz, I guess!)

By: Elin

Elin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 02:21:27 +0000

Hmm, DIane, is my irony lost somewhere:)

Yes, you’re right Andrew, I think it is up to people, and that’s the point.

Social communities aren’t growing grounds for “high lone” individuals. I understand that as I work in the industry I’m a slightly different type user than most – but I do tend to meet and form life long friendships with the people I connect with online, like Jim:) Which indeed lead to drinks at the RItz.

And you and I met at a Dopplr talk – which was another example of an event bringing together people from an online environment:)

By: jim

jim — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:36:49 +0000

Yeah, that social NOTworking stuff is poison! All it does is lead to superficial e-relationships, to pseudo-friendships that evaporate when you put your computer to sleep.

Well, and sometimes it leads to drinks at the Ritz.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:08:26 +0000

Can’t tell which (if any) part of this is tongue-in-cheek. But of course it’s a little bit of both. More acquaintances. Wider circles. Whether that makes more friends is up to us, I think.

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:49:24 +0000

Dunno, E. I think the internet has really changed how politics works over here, in terms of overcoming isolation (and disorganization). There’s no going back now, and thank heaven for that. Long live the trace, the signature, even the (much-maligned) emoticon … :)

By: Elin

Elin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:09:30 +0000

Maybe then we’d all be so much friendlier with each other:)