My most positive takeaway from the book is that there is still a lot of room to create new social interaction models for the internet. It doesn't have to stay f

My most positive takeaway from the book is that there is still a lot of room to create new social interaction models for the internet. It doesn't have to stay fragmentary and relatively meaningless, as in status updates. The dangers Lanier describes in the new Internet represent opportunity for the person that can turn them on their head and figure out cool ways to promote individual expression. The most negative takeaway is that the Web 2.0 medium is altering what we remember how to say. We start writing things so they can be Googled, or so they can be read by all our facebook friends. He definitely touched a nerve here.