There is a recent message/discussion board that attempts to debate whether you would or even should offer your seat on a bus to a pregnant woman. That last word seems somewhat surplus doesn’t it? But the whole discussion would seem to me to be superfluous. So what else are the MSNers doing? Well Ashton Kutcher and his new role as one of the two and a half men doesn’t seem to be generating any interest. Well…

Since January 2010 there has been an ongoing chat about

Using one word (only) to describe yourself at this very moment what would that be?

With 2463 messages and 41 brave souls, some of whom engage in the discussion by meeting the questions restrictive requirement, others can’t help being more verbose. With “Fromtheheart” gently reminding would-be posters to keep it simple early on; as the weeks turned into months whole paragraphs appeared and the word “Lazy” showed up a few times along with “Tired”, before the multiple word replies took over, and no one word answers since yesterday afternoon at least.

This discussion board illustrates how a board can morph into a private club with cyberspace companionships coalescing over the months. Some future anthropologists will troll the oceans of electronic waves and beams to piece together a picture of our current society in the infancy of the age of instant messaging, twitting, booking and u-tubing, blogs and chats. Smiles will light the faces of wizzened social scientists, accompanied by their nubile assistants who seek to explain the phenomena of early 21st century communications which are currently encircling the globe and its multifarious peoples bring us together in the great melting pot of file sharing, data retrieval, apps and hand held devices. We are pioneers in the wide, wild word of www.