Aug 042012
 

By Marion Kilgour, Director

The SEA started as a face-to-face Meet-Up group. We would sit around a table and talk about ideas, and problems, and generally interesting things. There was enough interest, that we thought we should be more public and accessible.

We sometimes get people who think that the Facebook page is the main achievement of the SEA, and the rest of our activities are window dressing.

Well, they’re not.

To explain why, I’ll refer you to this recent post in Scientific American  about why the people on the internet seem so angry, and why it’s a problem. Don’t get me wrong, the Facebook group is great. It introduces our group to a lot of people that wouldn’t otherwise know about us, and can ease the discomfort that a lot of us feel at going to a meeting with a lot of strangers. But it has downsides: the discussions can get ugly quick, you can’t get into the depth that you can face to face, and it’s easy to get angry and storm away. Continue reading »