At a web site for mothers in San Francisco, someone announced they were forming a mothers' group for women over forty. Over one hundred people signed up within a couple weeks, or so I've heard. However, I also heard that just a handful of people showed up for the first few meetings.
What does this mean--that older women are particularly stressed out when they become new mothers, and thus have a difficult time attending meetings? I doubt it. I think it indicates the looseness of the connections made when online groups are formed. Something about the Internet makes it very seductive to sign up for all sorts of things; but it's also easy to become overcommitted, and/or to just lose interest, before one has even attended a single meeting.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next decade is remembered as the Facebook era, considering the popularity of online social networking these days. However--if we are networking like mad, are we really socializing, face-to-face, with equal energy? I doubt it.
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