Monday, March 7, 2011

What The Sugar Mountain Has Taught Us: 2. It's The People, Not The Garden

As we continue to interact with friends, family and strangers on Facebook and Twitter, it's useful to take a break and consider what is important and what is not.

Remember that in Facebook, an important aspect to why we share our real lives is the feeling of being in a trusted garden with just the people we know. But is it the garden that Facebook provides, or sharing with just the people we know that is more important?

If we had a way of connecting with the people from our real lives on the open Internet (i.e., outside of Facebook), we would share the same content, knowing that we were sharing only with them.