On the subject of ephemeral communications
I rarely post just to reference a link, but I can't put it better than Bruce Schneier just did. Especially this bit:
The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll. We're now witnessing one aspect of that generation gap: the younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. Until our CEOs blog, our Congressmen Twitter, and our world leaders send each other LOLcats - until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers- we aren't fully an information age society.
Molly provides a lighter view on the same.
The Internet is the greatest generation gap since rock and roll. We're now witnessing one aspect of that generation gap: the younger generation chats digitally, and the older generation treats those chats as written correspondence. Until our CEOs blog, our Congressmen Twitter, and our world leaders send each other LOLcats - until we have a Presidential election where both candidates have a complete history on social networking sites from before they were teenagers- we aren't fully an information age society.
Molly provides a lighter view on the same.