Lucas Gonze wrote:
> It's a profoundly weird idea. The history of the internet is about
> connecting, not disconnecting. So why the rush to disconnect? What's
> the value?

Perhaps it's not so much "to disconnect" as "to connect selectively".
Internet users 10 or 15 years ago were a relatively small, self-selected
group, and because of social clustering, if you were online the chances
were that many of your friends were online too. Unrestricted
connectivity made sense in that community. But the internet's no longer
a single community, so it's developing internal barriers to help people
divide their time and attention and information among the people and
groups that interest them, while excluding the ones that distract or
threaten or bore them.

Cheers,
Michael