FACE BOOK COMMUNITY: SOCIOMETRIC ENCOUNTER AND BONUS HAIKU

[Adam M. Barcroft]

My dear Edward, you are evolving, right before my eyes.
You have overcome your own internal forces of resistance to moving,  
sociometrically speaking, closer to technology.  Don't worry Ed, you  
will never become an Automaton!  I am glad to see Ivo joining with  
enthusiasm, and creativity, and I applaud your creation of The  
Facebook page: SOCIOMETRIC ENCOUNTER GLOBAL group!  I like the  
professional appeal of LinkIn, and I think it is a very good  
professional networking resource.  But these days, nothing compares  
with the popularity of the Virtual pages of Facebook and MySpace,  
Twitter and others.  It took me this long to get a Facebook account,  
and the connections there I am finding very satisfying, Facebook  
social atom has rapidly grown and keeps taking shape and depth,  
everyday.  Even so, a rapidly expanding social atom is a big role  
demand...!
Like Kate I too have had quite a few OMG's on Facebook.  I have found  
connections 35 years old, from when I was 7 years old, and last week I  
even had some healing with a childhood friend, in the sharing (a typed  
message, within Face Book) with her my story of being psychically  
wounded with her, and I was only 9 years old.....she also had a  
catharsis, and replied to tell me she had grieved to read my note.    
We have had some exchanges in the last week now to integrate the  
matter more fully.  Also, I can imagine a powerful psychodrama I could  
enact, to heal the matter even more deeply.  This is a powerful result  
of sociometric re-activation, offering unexpected opportunities for  
psychic repair and revision.  So, yes, Facebook has real possibilities  
for encounter, and networking in a way that few people have ever been  
able to realize before.  Facebook is a new social networking frontier,  
and is becoming a worldwide standard.  And Second Life is a remarkable  
space also, with it's Avatar animation, and custom environments.  Look  
for psychodramatic experiments underway on GODOT Island, hosted by  
Pasternak, and run by researcher Kim Flintoff in Perth Australia).
These formats, and their overwhelming popularity in various human  
societies, challenge us to move our own creativity into new social  
arenas where Moreno's ideas can also take root and flourish.

Oh, and here's a random sharing of a Haiku I wrote yesterday:

Valentine' Day

Under frozen sheets,
gardens wait for coming heat,
what ev'ry heart wants.


Adam


Adam M. Barcroft MS, MA, NCC
Co-Director
The Moreno Institute East
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