Facebook

Facebook allows people to connect easily. Through this ease created in meeting people, the Facebook communication allows the individual to place information about him/herself on public view; now, with one meeting different and new people, they are able to--from the information presented about an individual--deduce certain characters from that information. This may be from the broadest thing of where that person is from, to the most minute detail of information such as a pet peeve. By interacting with people of similar characteristics, a person learns how to talk with a certain type of people (whether punk, emo, preppy, etc). A person interacting with a particular group learns what to say and what not to say. This almost follows along Steven Johnson's defintion of tracking 'multiple threads'; but tracking multiple threads of behavior. Placed in this new environment, the theory of probing and telescoping can be observed.