Social Network

In Fred Turner's, Where the Counterculture Met the New Economy article, its very interesting to see how technology advancement developed with the internet of intercommunication across the nation. The interactions on the internet of what we do today with facebook, twitter, ebay, amazon, ect, are everyday activities and normal to us. But the Well, along with the catalog had to be a drastic change in life for people in that time period. It’s interesting how people viewed it as “boundary objects” and “trading zones”. Is makes it seem like how you would describe interacting and trading in the ancient days. It would be interesting to hear more reaction of individuals of that time as this virtual community and forums were taking place. I wonder what some of the consequences were at the time of these interactive developments. We discuss the negative aspects of today’s technology in class. There were likely situations with the catalog similar to what we see with ebay scams today, along with interaction conflicts and disputes which facebook often stirs up. Either way it’s intriguing to see the beginning of the social network world. I believe the social theorists were correct when they thought the interconnection would become the new social order, as it influences us today and future.