Outside Civilisation

My thoughts on what people do on the internet have been posted on salon_virtuel. The half-baked ideas come with a disclaimer though:

A couple of posts by danah boyd conflate with a link provided by simonf and some comments made by other people on my flist. Mashed together they bring forth some ideas I've been having about human behaviour on the internet. In fact these ideas aren't more than ephemeral intuitions, possibly prejudices based on hear-say and other people's experiences.

If you're still interested you can go to the actual essay. All discussion is welcomed over there.