Comments on: Get a Third Place http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2009/02/06/get-a-third-place/ Fresh ideas for interactive creativity Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:55:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: pedro rocha http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/2009/02/06/get-a-third-place/#comment-728 pedro rocha Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:35:19 +0000 http://www.asourceofinspiration.com/?p=1911#comment-728 sure. a favorite café. one's hang-out bar. Our groups on facebook or friendfeed. The internet did not create any new needs... "online folks" are not different from their offline counterparts. They desire the same thing: to connect. one important observation though... inhabiting an "online third space" allows us to inhabit, at the same time, an offline "first, second or third space". Example: people twittering while they are working. sure. a favorite café. one’s hang-out bar. Our groups on facebook or friendfeed.

The internet did not create any new needs… “online folks” are not different from their offline counterparts. They desire the same thing: to connect.

one important observation though… inhabiting an “online third space” allows us to inhabit, at the same time, an offline “first, second or third space”. Example: people twittering while they are working.

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