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Brooks Adickman and Leitenberg say they're prepared for this contingency. They've already registered MyParentsJoinedTwitter.com, making them well situated for the next big thing. "When parents start joining, the party's over," Brooks Adickman says. "Hopefully Jeanne and I will be there to document wherever the migration goes." (See the top 10 celebrity Twitter feeds...
...call their project a "loving" one, spurred by the fact that Leitenberg's family contacted her Facebook friends. Both are quick to say their relatives are not the problem - Brooks Adickman says her parents aren't even "allowed" to join Facebook - but they recognized that others might not be so fortunate. "No matter how embarrassing your mom is, there's someone who's a thousand times worse," Leitenberg says...
Ultimately, though, the women say their site isn't meant to dissuade parents from joining in on the online fun. Leitenberg says her relationship with her father has even - gasp! - grown closer since he joined Facebook. Instead, sites like MyParentsJoinedFacebook are meant to help parents avoid common pitfalls. "We want people to know that when they get that friend request, it's O.K. to say yes," Brooks Adickman says...
...worked with were doing a tremendously good job of finding their way and using landmarks. At some point, my students and I had the idea of trying to do some similar experiments with human beings. Compared to any animal that I've ever studied or read about, I would say that the average urban person kind of wanders around in a semi-lost state. In traditional way-finding cultures like the Inuit in the Arctic or the Australian Aborigines, getting lost meant losing your life. And that's usually not the case with us. (Read "A Brief History...
...certain key elements that you see over and over again. One is that they cultivate an exquisitely fine eye for visual detail. They just plain notice stuff. And a lot of the time in our everyday life, we don't. Everybody encounters people from time to time who say, "I have a wonderful sense of direction. I never get lost." And if you really ask them what it is that they're doing, then that eye for detail is often one of the first things that emerges. People who are exceptionally good way-finders seem to notice [their surroundings] more...