Social Surfing

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1. fids says:

   February 9, 2006 at 6:35 am

   Nice thought, sure beats texting while out with friends. Plus the Mac itself could be a conversation piece or icebreaker. Woohoo!

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1. A Bugged Life » Blog Archive » the need to catch the next [online] wave says:

   March 7, 2006 at 6:56 am

   [...] I was elated to have found that Butch made reference to a piece I wrote some time ago about WiFi and social norms. In what’s become an odd downside to wi-fi, people in cafés now talk less to each other where there’s wireless to go and a laptop to play with. As happens in many of our PhilMug “wala lang” meetings, half a dozen geeks might trot out their machines on a long table, order drinks, and start chatting with absent friends or even each other – on wi-fi. As tech writer Jayvee Fernandez notes in one of the best-produced tech blogs to have emerged recently at The AfterMac, “WiFi as a social concept, at least here where I’m from, is null and void. On many occasions where my friends bring portables to a coffee shop, the buzz of conversation dies down, replaced by the muffled clicking of their trackpads. I guess the best place to start is going wireless in a pizza joint. Social food is always good. That’s Adel and myself with our PowerBook and iBook chatting, downloading stuff and sharing photos while waiting for our pizza.” [...]

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