The article is “Do FarmVilleans Dream of Analog Sheep” and is, in a nutshell, about how our lives are increasingly interwoven with technology and how that affects us.
I think both of the haiku have appeared on this blog already, but here in a fancier format are “On Facebook” and “On Twitter.”
If you read these (particularly the article) and the writing provokes any thoughts or questions, I would love to hear from you, either via email or in a comment.
A very wise elder and dear friend, Eddie Jones, with whom I have had a long running conversation about social media offered the following good words in response after reading my article:
If I may paraphrase scripture: As faith without works is dead, information without community is dead. And my definition of community includes a common geography (physical, not virtual). A related definition of “neighborhood” (found on the web, of course!):
“A district forming a community within a town or city, where inhabitants recognize each other by sight.” The italics are mine…no avatars allowed.