(Or the rediscovery of discretion)The rediscovery of discretion
Older people, too, will extend their social networks online without feeling awkward, says Andreas Kluth
For the first 200 millennia of the species, human social networks remained technologically stable. People sat around campfires, told stories and cultivated connections. Literacy and letters, and later the telephone, helped to extend these across distance. But the trickiest part involved figuring out the right balance between divulging too much or too little to the network, and between coming on too strongly or too coyly in requesting new friendships, copulations and alliances ... (continua aquí...)
