I see this huge resurgance of multiples on the internet, and it makes me skeptical.
For me this goes for about anything on the 'net, although I don't know if I'd call it a -re-surgeance per se. I think the internet encourages specific modes of interaction (one being the journal/blog with or without comments enabled, and the other being the alt.* Usenet ethos that's bled over into LJ communities and other corners of the net) where it's a lot easier to find the people who are either newly-emerged whatevers (breastfeeding mums, polyamorists, multiples, Harley lovers) or the radical heavily involved sort-of - elite.
'Cause that tends to be when people are really *really* verbal about things; once one's life settles down to fairly regular every day living, the attraction of arguing about it decreases some. Of course there are a lot of people in the middle simply by virtue of being mouthy and liking that style (like me!) but they don't always set the *tone* of things.
Also the 'net remains skewed somewhat young, demographically - particularly something like a LJ community.
It's one reason I think it's a two-edged sword that people are now learning about multiplicity from the 'net. Yay, that it doesn't always have to go through the survivor/sensational publishing/media mill. Yay that people can interact. But at the same time, if people don't realize that the tone of online communities doesn't always match the reality of multiples within the broader real-world community, it can just create new stereotypes. Sigh. Minorities suck that way, to be in one. :-)
On another tangent - I know there's a lot of crossover between multiplicity and soulbonding, but I know about that >< much about soulbonding. I don't think you were saying they are always together but I thought I'd say so. :)
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Date: 2005-08-10 12:20 am (UTC)For me this goes for about anything on the 'net, although I don't know if I'd call it a -re-surgeance per se. I think the internet encourages specific modes of interaction (one being the journal/blog with or without comments enabled, and the other being the alt.* Usenet ethos that's bled over into LJ communities and other corners of the net) where it's a lot easier to find the people who are either newly-emerged whatevers (breastfeeding mums, polyamorists, multiples, Harley lovers) or the radical heavily involved sort-of - elite.
'Cause that tends to be when people are really *really* verbal about things; once one's life settles down to fairly regular every day living, the attraction of arguing about it decreases some. Of course there are a lot of people in the middle simply by virtue of being mouthy and liking that style (like me!) but they don't always set the *tone* of things.
Also the 'net remains skewed somewhat young, demographically - particularly something like a LJ community.
It's one reason I think it's a two-edged sword that people are now learning about multiplicity from the 'net. Yay, that it doesn't always have to go through the survivor/sensational publishing/media mill. Yay that people can interact. But at the same time, if people don't realize that the tone of online communities doesn't always match the reality of multiples within the broader real-world community, it can just create new stereotypes. Sigh. Minorities suck that way, to be in one. :-)
On another tangent - I know there's a lot of crossover between multiplicity and soulbonding, but I know about that >< much about soulbonding. I don't think you were saying they are always together but I thought I'd say so. :)