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[tarimanveri]

So, tomorrow I'm going to that symposium at Harvard on cultural transfer in the early medieval Mediterranean. It should be interesting! Also, erstwhile advisor A is supposed to be there, although I'll only believe it when I see it. But it would be nice to see him - especially in a roomful of strangers and other assorted big-deal medievalists at

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[rose71]

Wow, I am weirded out by the idea of using Facebook to network with senior scholars. Scary!!! (I have a few senior scholars friended on FB, but I never communicate with them that way--it's too confusingly different from real-life interactions.)

On the other hand, I love the fact that you will be at Harvard tomorrow. So, while I'm locked in my room grading papers, I will know that I have an LJ flistie a few blocks away.

[tarimanveri]

I hope your grading is going well! I have a week's lull now before my students have their exam next Saturday, at which point everything will go crazy for a few days.

As for Facebook, yes! Facebook isn't about networking to me, and I don't want that to change. I think people are joining now (like my advisor) with an eye to the networking possibilities, but that's actually kind of an intrusion on how I use facebook, which is informally, to talk to my friends. I still carefully consider who's reading when I post anything because it's the internet and semi-public, but that's still different from the way I'd interact in a professional context, which I very much don't want facebook to become.

[tarimanveri]

Yes, me too! It's like, facebook knows it has us now, and it's not taking the high road with that knowledge. It's using it to be as evil as it can. GRR