flynn23 wrote:
] how bout #4? People become more personally responsible for
] their communications?

My view of this is almost the reciprocal.

All of the things that you talk about in this post I think are important. There are real lessons to learn in participating in a intellectual community, and we don't GET those lessons from the "real world" because the "real world" is NOT an intellectual community. Its sexual and political.

However, I think the internet has been an intellectual community only insofar as its roots have been firmly with the nerds. As it becomes more and more mainstream I think it will feel less and less like a place where mature conversation occurs. Love and war are irrational. The amount of drama on the net seems to increase exponentially with a linear growth in population.

Basically, I don't think anyone is going to give you hell because you posted immaturely 10 years ago. I think that people will give you hell because you expressed a view that offends them 10 years ago. People can understand spelling errors, but not political ones. Because politics isn't rational, and it wants to be offended.

RE: A Nation of Voyeurs