FACE BOOK COMMUNITY: SOCIOMETRIC ENCOUNTER AND BONUS HAIKU

[edwschreiber at earthlink.net]

Hi Adam and List,
Yes, I overcame my terror/fear/judgement/resistance to all this.  And frankly, it is not hard, and quite blooming fun.  I found a friend, a good from who was looking for me for 20 years!   Thanks for your relentless push.  Ed

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Adam M. Barcroft" <amb1111 at mac.com>
>Sent: Feb 15, 2009 3:24 PM
>To: list at grouptalkweb.org
>Subject: Re: FACE BOOK COMMUNITY: SOCIOMETRIC ENCOUNTER AND BONUS HAIKU
>
>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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