Just some random thoughts…

I have been starting to notice how people use different modes of communication online. We have email, instant messaging, plus some website messaging tools. For instance, I don’t know (or at least can’t find) the email address for my friend Jesse Miller, but I know that he logs into www.boardgamegeek.com on a regular basis, so when I want to tell him something, I login there and shoot him a private message.

Facebook has really changed modes of communication, too. There are people that I message on Facebook regularly, even though I know their email address. Why? I don’t know, it just seems more convenient sometimes. Their Wall-to-Wall metric is what strikes me as very odd, though. You can see people’s entire conversations happen in your stream, since wall posts are public. That makes the conversation seem more like a public action, almost like the involved parties are on a stage in front of everyone, or at least talking loud enough that everyone else in the room can hear them.