Tuesday, May 24, 2005

What is Digital Influence?

My best friend was a 30 year old mother of 2 when I met her in college. I started off as her babysitter and it's turned into a 12 year adventure of kids, break-ups, friends and lovers found and lost, working together and plenty of moving in dead winter.

Anyway, her house was the Mecca for 10-12 year olds in her neighborhood and there were always children hovering while we gossiped about the on-campus adventures of our friends. One couldn't talk about the seedier details of the weekends events in front of said kiddies so we developed a series of phrases to describe just what naughty deed was seen, heard or whispered about. "Digital Influence" ran rampant, someone always had their fingers in someone else's "business" (get the picture?). If it was a REALLY good night for the girls, there was an "Oral Exam" and hallelujah if "Shenanigans" ensued.

So there you have it. And I bet you thought it was going to be some commentary on the invasion of technology into the global psyche.