> McLuhan: "The closer you get together, the more you like each other? There is no evidence of that in any situation that we have ever heard of. When people get

> McLuhan: "The closer you get together, the more you like each other? There is no evidence of that in any situation that we have ever heard of. When people get close together, they get more and more savage and impatient with each other." To riff on this-- I think we are too close together in a massive news feed ('timeline'). Individual blogs gave us a healthy distance.