So we weave smoothly and seamless in and out of different social contexts, meeting different audiences and engaging in communities, without even being aware of it.
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Now the online world.. that's different. I get offered a spout where I can shout all my social needs undirectional. There's nearly only one mode of communication, and there are no real community boundaries. My messages reach people all of the time who don't want to hear them, and whom I didn't want to include really.
But that's online. We think we figured it all out. That we just have an extra communication line. But actually we have highly flawed primitive communication tools.
Our social bandwidth of effective and efficient social communication, the ability to convey what we want to convey to others, represents a 9600 baud modem.
We are in the stone ages of online social networking still.