Someone on the list wrongly ascribed to Lauren Squires the following quote: "If you don't belong to some kind of social network, you soon may not belong anywhere." Instead, it was Lauren (I think) who called to our attention the quote which comes from Daniel Tynan's article for US Airways magazine, June 07. I love the quote as a straw being (formerly known in less PC times as a straw man), and I plan to start my next article with it -- a review of Lin Freeman's history of social network analysis. Why do I love it? Because a generation ago (in human years, not ICT years), we could barely sell the concept of Social Network to anyone. Now, it has been Tynan-ized. Barry Wellman _____________________________________________________________________ Barry Wellman S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology NetLab Director Centre for Urban & Community Studies University of Toronto 455 Spadina Avenue Toronto Canada M5S 2G8 fax:+1-416-978-7162 wellman at chass.utoronto.ca http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman For fun -- updating songs, movies and history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php Elvis wouldn't be singing Return to Sender now _____________________________________________________________________