Repeated name visibility online makes outsiders desire meeting people
Evidence
A guy who I met with at dinner in SOMA, I ended up taking him over to some drinkup someone was having. I forget, but it was like, people from Flickr and Digg and all these … And he’s like, “Holy crap! You just took me to ground zero.” Like, “I did?” That was just like any party that we do. This guy lives in Hong Kong and he doesn’t see this stuff but he sees these names online. Twitter … you see these names repeated and at-replied and, you know, they wanna meet this person. They don’t even know who they are or why they want to. I bet all these people were like, who’s Robert Scoble and that kind of stuff. But they see his name and they’re like, “I should meet him.” And if they meet him, they’re like, “Oh! I met this person.” — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 327
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Repeated public-space encounters convert strangers into personally known acquaintances