Facebook and Myspace require permission to enter in like manner but by agreement, the visitor may remain as a presence in an otherwise semi-private field after communication has terminated. The permission may be revoked.
Blogs permit the uninvited to be a presence and remain and comment, as though standing on the lawn looking and calling through open windows with no curtains or blinds. Inside becomes more subsumed within outside, losing privacy forcing one to move farther inward to maintain it.
The trend, apparently, is to throw the door open, to give over what personal control and information that the individual may have while being encouraged to develop the view that this is a better way to engage socially and is given, oddly, authority, by issuing it a name with a whole number followed by an empty decimal. Such is the suggestive power of numerals. Who would accept the validity of a philosophy called (business) lemon*hybrid*pineapple? (unless it was a drink)
We have to ask ourselves; are we primates or secondrates?
On the other hand, it is possible, being aware of this, to then devise, prepare and disseminate, at the whim and discretion of the host, for the purpose of maintaining a safe perimeter or even controlling the environment, information, which apparently needs no more authority than the fact that someone held a view and disseminated it, in a post so that the "guests" or followers as the designers of this device has seen fit to call them, may be presented what the host deems a proper gander, and either deflect invasion or draw in and persuade while remaining in actuality, anonymous, that is if one wishes to engage in this manner at all, but certainly when one is compelled. Probably a good venue for secret codes.
Unanswered is the question of how many followers constitute a cult and at what point can one start charging, applying for tax exempt status and secession.
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