There’s been a lotta talking about community on the web. Seems that some people have the idea that creating an appealing, nurturing, challenging, warm community is difficult and requires a new set of web-based social cues. These people would be right.

There’s a lot of psychology research into the dynamics of attraction and intimacy. One thing that has always stood out for me about attraction is what I term the danger level – the danger of intimacy. Often I think that for people with avoidant-ambivalent attachment styles, interacting one on one is easier and sometimes there is something to be said for transgressive behavior. I almost got involved in editing and expanding some silly original analysis on wikipedia of the movie American Beauty — and it felt sort of comfortable. You’re not supposed to put original analysis on wikipedia.

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