In this case, we've been investigating how to prevent the abusive situations that occasionally occur on such sites. All the research started to fall into place for me last night when I read "Loneliness is psychological, not statistical."
Here the species is "members of online communities". This species will survive only if the species as a whole can either reproduce itself faster than it can be preyed upon or evolves a successful defense mechanism to attack.
Right now and in the foreseeable future I think that reproduction is going to be the winning strategy. This strategy is going to work incredibly well on sites such as MySpace, YouTube and the like. This strategy will insure immediate survival of the species until the predator species either reproduces in like number or develops the ability to prey on several individuals at once.
(more to follow...)
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Links for this post:
- Posts on The Village
- Books for your own explorations in this area:
- Emotions Inside Out: 130 Years After Darwin's the Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
- Landscapes of Fear
- Languages of Sentiment: Cultural Constructions of Emotional Substrates (Advances in Consciousness Research)
- Public Appearances, Private Realities: The Psychology of Self-Monitoring (Series of Books in Psychology)
- The Self: From Soul to Brain (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)
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