Adina addresses issues Chris Allen raises about the flatness of online social networks. Snippet:

I think part of the problem is being a post-freudian modern; intimacy is the ultimate goal of relationship and a source of secular transcendence. We need to go back to a more 18th century concept of public identity to describe the pleasures and rewards of broad acquaintance.

Lots more good stuff.

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