My friends are islands on the screen. Nicole has facebook, twitter, and anything I wanna know about her, shows up immediately around her from all of the different places that information about her could possibly be. If it takes pictures immediately from her camera and puts them up for our sharing, I can see her as she's going about her day, what she's doing, experiencing, and in an essence, each of these friend nodes becomes enriched by every aspect of the person's life, and I don't have to go to several websites to find out what's going on. Just because they use several media doesn't mean that when I want to approach them as I would a friend, I cannot simply know all I'd like to about my closest friends. I can know when Debs puts a new picture on deviantart, I can know when Jo has a new photo set up on flickr, and when all of us have the same system, I can comment on her experiences as a whole and she can do so on mine. I'd like to leave e-voicemails, actually hear my friend's voice. I'm up to date with my web lingo, but a couple of ha has and 8)s aren't going to convey what I feel. I have alot more than just the terse one-liners to say to my closest friends.
I'm thinking as well that my being here in Cali, completely distant from all my friends, makes this easier to conceptualize for me. And easier to bring it down to exactly what I wish I could be doing with my friends.
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