Orcology Asks: 'Is Trust evolving'

In Orcology, another excellent blog, whose author's name is not easily found, the question is posed: "Is trust evolving" because of blogs.

I think the answer is that trust is always either evolving or diminishing.  Two people get to know each other as neighbors, lovers or as an employee/employer.  They get to know each other over time. Each gives the other little hints all the time. You start trusting each other in one area-say taste in movies, and not others--restaurants.

The Orcologist cites Robert Scoble who keeps revealing himself as he drives with wife and U-Hal truck from his mother's funeral in Montana to his home near Seattle. You have to trust him because he shows so much of himself.  You have to trust him, Orcology speculates, even though this blog has something to do with that Microsoft Empire.

Now in that, we have a new phenomenon. Blogging extends the number of people we get to trust.  It removes the need for proximity.  We meet people, and get to know them in little spoonfuls, over time.

Blogging gives us little windows into the souls of people who interest us.

Comments

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What is "trust" ?? how is it defined ??

Yes, blogging gives use one spoonfull at the a blogger is doing and what are their thoughts.

I remember, I just watched a movie where Donald sutherland comments "Oh I trust, I trust everybody, but what I dont trust - is the devil in them" .. ...

That made me think, fwiw, that "trust" is also an understanding which is akin to "thank god I love you, because I don't always like you" !!

For E.g Shel, I trust you in many ways, but at the same time, I also need to preserve my thought direction in a manner which sustains me to make the best decesion/judgements on an issue. Just Trust by itself--is only half the part.The other part of it how much do I trust myself in making that connection with another blogger too..

Its a dichotmay of cognition at play here...

I capatured some thoughts here and I basically asking myself in these 3 questions

What am I as a blogger ?
Who am I as a blogger ?
Why am I a blogger ?

its tough it answer simple questions too :)-

[Page]

Time to update the about page.

I think what is happening is that we simply have more information and context in which to develop trust-based relationships.

We may unconsciously transfer that trust to a firm regardless of its origins.

Cheers

[Barry]

I wholeheartedly agree with this. People will only reveal as much as they wish to reveal, and that is ok, because I choose to to the same.

I purposely started my blog in order to generate interest in my book, "Queens and Crescents", and along the way, I have made a lot of friends.

[John Koetsier]

It's easier to trust as we get more information. The greater the detail the less likely it is fake.

To illustrate your point. the first thing I do when I meet someone or hear about someone that I have or could have some significant interaction with is google them. I want to know who they are, what they do, and what they are interested in.

People with a miniscule online footprint are harder to trust. People with a larger online footprint give you more data to go on ... and have more reputation at stake if they screw up.

[jozef Imrich]

Indeed, the devil is in the detail ...

"The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust."
-G. K. Chesterton Weekly, August 18, 1928

[Michael Sippey]

Hi, Shel -- I'm testing leaving a comment to try to troubleshoot your issue.

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