I woke up around 3:30 AM today thinking about three concepts.
Club Rights and their extension to visitors. More on this below.
Open Social and it's implications on concepts 1 and 2 in social software.
tendency to "take into the fold" a stranger based on certain criteria.
status as a police officer.
honorific team membership may be temporarily accorded the newcomer.
So we "take care of our own" even if they are strangers.
The second concept has been talked about more frequently and it is the Familiar Stranger.
odd actually. OK, back to the subject.
temporary. If he wants to live here he must join the club.
call it the "social graph") As a twitter user when someone tells me to join pownce I groan. Sure it is a great service, but do I really want to rebuild my social graph on jaiku? Of course not – what a pain!
for that matter can overcome something so innate in human relations.
The photo? An AKC event at the AstroArena in Houston last year. It just highlights that if I know you on twitter, and you are doing dog shows, that in YOUR club I have no status beyond amateur photographer. Social graph be damned.