Some people speak of social media as if community never existed online before 2007. Bollocks. The human-powered web. Rubbish. It's always been human-powered, since day zero. If anything, it's a lot more robot powered now than ever before.
Ever since the first email exchange took place, we've been seeking community online. Sure, it was clunky and didn't have things called "tweets" two twelp it twavel across the tweb, but it was community fair and square.
So here we are in 2009 and the whole soc…
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