{"id":3931,"date":"2004-03-27T07:26:59","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T07:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2004-03-27T07:26:59","modified_gmt":"2004-03-27T07:26:59","slug":"the_socialemoti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=3931","title":{"rendered":"The Social\/Emotional Support of Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misbehaving.net\/2004\/03\/intimate_commun.html\">interesting post<\/a> over on misbehaving.net by Danah Boyd that made me pause and think for a bit.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misbehaving.net\/2004\/03\/intimate_commun.html\">She asks<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So, i have to ask&#8230; what kinds of social\/emotional support does technology provide you? How? Is this about supporting everyday interactions or providing access to a whole new world of support? [misbehaving.net]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a combination of supporting everyday interactions and providing access.  For instance, almost all my friends have email.  It provides a nice way for trying to plan events and keep in touch randomly.  Even when you don&#8217;t have time to call someone and chat for a bit you can always sent off a quick message saying &#8216;hi&#8217;.  On the other side of things, I&#8217;ve been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudconnect.com\/mudfaq\/mudfaq-p1.html\">mudding<\/a> for, uh, longer than I want to admit and I can say that has given me access to a whole other level of support.  I have people I&#8217;ve known online for years who I have never met face to face who I consider to be friends.  We&#8217;ve known each other through school, through some of us getting married, some of us getting divorced, children, and so on.  I&#8217;m connected to those worlds pretty much all the time, and check in on them during the day much like I do email.<\/p>\n<p>I may add to this a bit later, but it&#8217;s early and I need coffee before writing anything more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read an interesting post over on misbehaving.net by Danah Boyd that made me pause and think for a bit. She asks: So, i have to ask&#8230; what kinds of social\/emotional support does technology provide you? How? Is this about supporting everyday interactions or providing access to a whole new world of support? [misbehaving.net] [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}