Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Nov 25, 2007, 07:42 AM
The easy sociality of Facebook is terrific, like wandering into some Old School Chicago tavern after work, a habit of sociality that requires public transportation, neighborhoods, the contingencies of daily working and walking to and from work and home. Friendship en route. You pop in. See what's up. Tip one back. Then you make it the rest of the way home, cheered by the brief contact with whomever happened to be there in whatever mood. Facebook feels a bit like that in its combination of ritual, control, and accident.