Now that we have our “third place,” our place that is not work and not home, our abundance of cafes for hanging out, reading, journaling and chatting, we are meeting up on our laptops in a virtual “third place” – Facebook.
Just as the cafe is a place to be private in public, so Facebook is a place where we choose to disclose just so much. And we need this level of disclosure. Perhaps when we lived in the village, we’d have this level of sharing when we pounded our laundry on rocks at the river. Now that we each have our own home laundry facilities, we are lonely. Facebook, like the cafe, relieves that loneliness a bit. (more…)
