I often find myself making assumptions of what other people are assuming…which can be a bit confusing. For example, I follow Allison and found you by looking at Allison’s Flickr page of yesterday’s Tweetup. After reading your tweets and blog posts I followed you. But I felt a bit ‘pervy’ or voyeristic doing so without being introduced. But this is a perfectly normal thing to do in the ‘Twitterverse’ or Social Network world in general. We follow those who interest us.

It is often tricky merging online world with the ‘real world’ and I think this is where technologies such as Second Life are very usefull as they provide a type of meeting that is a bit more like the familiar physical world. In our physical lives, it would be weird if you were to follow someone around watching what they do without saying hi and introducing yourself. We all have different comfort levels and I feel it is important to connect and communicate with different age groups to expand our awareness and understanding of others.

I find observing social behaviour individuals and groups fascinating and finding your feet in the Twitterverse can be difficult for some. It seems that younger people are very apt and feel at home in the digital world, while many of my older friends struggle to comprehend Twitter and other Social Networks.

Is there such a thing as Digital Anthropology? Sign me up.

Vincent.

Makes me wonder how many of my followers and followees are under 18.

@elidet