So right, I've being going on about small groups and visibility, but I want to put this in a wider context. The lack of easy sociability in cyberspace and the need to augment our senses to understand the online world, instead of just being able to interpret all this information naturally, isn't just a characteristic of, I don't know, certain applications like instant messaging. It's symptomatic of a much broader *cyberspace nature*, and I've got a couple of recommendations for where we should be looking to figure out what to do with this in the next few years.

First I'll just establish some context.