Oh, don't get me wrong - there's still a lot of stigma against a lot of practices and peoples, both online and offline. Gamers (although not all games), goths, geeks, going online to hang out with strangers, making up "fake" worlds (from D&D to MOOs to Second Life), reading the encyclopedia for fun, ... these are all still lame. But it's not the Internet that's lame... there's just a lot of lame shit there and people who do lame shit. From their point of view, MOOs are *nothing* like MySpace. We can argue otherwise theoretically but that's the mainstream teen view. (Of course, i have a special place in my heart for the goths, geeks, queers and freaks... But that doesn't mean they've gotten any "cooler.") On Mar 1, 2006, at 8:42 AM, Bunz, Ulla wrote:
Danah says, "They definitely don't have a stigma attached to the Internet" and actually, this I find very interesting, because while my early 20s students seem to think it's perfectly normal to be on MySpace or Facebook, and while they find it normal to have relationships there, they think that people who made friends in LambdaMoo must be really weird, socially inept weirdos and that online communities are a thing of the past (not realizing that they are, indeed, part of one themselves). Just a fun-fact. Ulla
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