There's a tendency for people to see media as isolated programs, items, clips, stories, narratives. That literal frame of different media is the limit of their little world. Actually all these isolations form part of a continuous personal experience that includes what has happened before and is occurring around at the same time. Including what might be called real life. You can't be me, I'm taken
I remember going to see 'Beyond the Fringe' in London, as a sixth former, and thinking 'this changes everything'. The same thing happened when someone showed me the Mosaic browser for the first time in late 93. And then Daily Kos.
We're still at the beginning, really. Lots more mind-blowing stuff to come. You can't be me, I'm taken
For me, a geosocial network would include ET - even if we are not all simultaneously in the same physical locality. But people and places are as much what happens here as anything else. Though some might disagree.
When I see Far Easterner's pictures of friends met on travels, LEP's family, or your tennis fellowship, I'm thinking - well I'd probably like to meet these people too. These people become by default part of my geosocial community.
The real bonds are with people you can physically touch or have touched. Those bonds can be extended electronically, but the node, the hot-spot, is the real bonds.
/old hippy rant You can't be me, I'm taken
