Home, community, and all the rest:
So it is that I re-read E.D.’s post about home and a sense of place in the world in light of my recent admission to myself that I think very highly and appreciate greatly our hyper-connected world. You see I found myself filled with a surprising degree of excitement when I read about the latest round of renovations that Facebook had planned (h/t: Poulos), which have ultimately caused me to decide to let my twitter account go unused and switch my network solely over to Facebook. My excitement was not so much rooted in the fact that Facebook was changing things for the sake of changing things, as many have attributed to the decision, but rather that the changes seemed to represent an inching closer towards a kind of interconnectivity that portends what I take to be a potentially great benefit in resolving the seeming conflict between embedding and strengthening a sense of locality and acknowledging and working with our ever fleshing contexts of globalism.