Relationship networks. These are not your usual social networking sites, but self and peer counseling websites set up to help people work through personal relationship issues on their terms and time.
What interests me is how technology is being used to reach a new audience. Which human need is being served by the Internet. Well, if the Internet can help people find a date or a mate why can't it help work out those interpersonal problems that every relationship encounters before the relationship dissolves.
I see Web 2.0 applications moving from a tool used by a society for entertainment to a tool that helps a society fulfill the personal ideology of it's members. That is those ideas that reflect the social needs and aspirations of the individual. In this case it helps individuals work through relationship issues without the traditional counsel.
For those of us who do not feel comfortable "spilling our gut" in a face to face situation these websites may be a way of easing us into a problem solving mindset. Let's face it, people have to want to go into counseling. The desire to meet, talk and listen to an objective point of view is a step that many of us do not want to initiate.
The application of interactive software for social connection continues to provide the means for a society to become more self-sufficient, possible more egalitarian in nature allowing individuals to use their talents and knowledge for the good of their community, the human race.
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