{"id":580,"date":"2011-05-09T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/?p=580"},"modified":"2011-05-09T12:14:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T19:14:08","slug":"ambient-intimacy-ambient-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2011\/05\/ambient-intimacy-ambient-engagement.html","title":{"rendered":"Ambient intimacy, ambient engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago we used to refer to the twitter stream in terms of &#8220;ambient intimacy.&#8221; The phrase stuck. It captured the experience of in-stream serendipity and discovery, of finding and building connections in a real time medium that was faster than Facebook, mobile, and hyper-conversational.<\/p>\n<p>How time flies. Ambient intimacy is now baked into the very air we breathe. It&#8217;s a fresh air, a turbulent air, dead air, sometimes a choking air. Used to be that one had to write to communicate. Checkins and a universe of shareable media have taken care of that. The stream flows full now of flotsam and jetsam of all kinds.<\/p>\n<p>In this fast and ambient world of ubiquitous and connected sharing, intimacy has been crowded out. The impulse to &#8220;reach out and touch&#8221; is now more rare. A pass along will pass for enough. Gestures and signals are faster than talking. Liking gratifies in a Roman instant.<\/p>\n<p>We live in a time of &#8220;ambient engagement.&#8221; There if you want it, gone in a second, if you don&#8217;t. Ambient engagement is the etiquette for social in a geo-local age. In an age when talk is an ever-present possibility, but only rarely an obligation.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple years ago we used to refer to the twitter stream in terms of &#8220;ambient intimacy.&#8221; The phrase stuck. It captured the experience of in-stream serendipity and discovery, of finding and building connections in a real time medium that was faster than Facebook, mobile, and hyper-conversational. How time flies. Ambient intimacy is now baked&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-realtime-streamtime-activity-and-action-streams","category-twitter-commentaries-and-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}