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what drives whuffie?
I originally thought of it as explicit, kinda like a blog post/link/rating.
But...
"I pinged my Whuffie. I was up a couple percentiles -- sympathy Whuffie -- but it was falling: Dan and Lil were radiating disapproval. Screw 'em."
Does this mean that Dan and Lil's emotional state and its object were automatically "scraped"? Or that other people are watching this scene, and "rating" him? Or what?
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I had the same line of thinking, but from Friday's installment: "I could tell from his tone that he wasn't too happy about my snapping at him, but I was too wrapped up to consider an apology, despite what must be happening to my Whuffie as Dan did his slow burn." So either blogging is so ubiquitous as to become instinctive if not completely subconscious (which is possible, when everyone is online in their head all the time) or the Whuffie is a master control system for the Bitchun Society that monitors everyone's mood and opinion of everyone else. Which means that Jules' hive-mind argument to Dan is moot, because it's already happening.
Jul 14, 2008 10:41 am
by no_relation
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