Today I realized that I cannot expect people on the Internet to have heard of the Geek Social Fallacies any more.
The Geek Social Fallacies are five things that geeks often believe about How Socializing Should Work, that cause a lot of conflict. I've found them to be pretty useful as a way to put a handle on certain concepts, and maybe even avoid going into bad situations.
http://plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html
(Looking at them in 2017, I find myself wondering how many of the GSFs the design of most social networks is running straight into...)
@anthracite
And another takeaway, yet another generation of people who were raised in a barrel of artificial feces force fed to them by robotic friendship-mediating robots, think they understand based on that experience where feces comes from -- friends.
@astro This is from 2003, when "social networks" barely existed.
@anthracite
That's ok, my view of the average people who caused geeks to flee en masse to the internet in search of a new country with new social contracts, is compatible enough in spirit with "robots who mediate robotic friendships" since neither they nor their relationships are real