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danah boyd's crib notes from her Supernova presentation are a must read: "Autistic Social Software" :: Supernova 2004. I debated and debated which snippet I'd post, but there is too much good stuff. Read it. Here is a temptation: the conclusion:

I'd like to conclude with a quote by Douglas Adams in "Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet" - "Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do."

Let's stop trying to dumb down people through technology. Let's step back and build technology that will make sense in the everyday lives of those who use it, that will empower them to use their evolved brain in a meaningful way.