I-ntimacy today

 

10 levels of intimacy from Ji-Lee in NYC

I came across this through Dan Chapman’s blog. Created by NY-based Ji-Lee I think it’s brilliant in its simplicity, and shows how relationships and intimacy have changed in our connected world. I don’t think it goes far enough though. What about when someone posts something on Google Maps or Mapr? Or geo-tags a picture in Flickr? Or shares a photo album on Flickr? Or sends a text message to many people? And blogging/micro-blogging? When I write for magazines & newspapers, even if though I know who the audience are, it feels much less personal than writing here, or Tweeting.

I know what you’re thinking: why make something simple so much more complex when the idea was just to make a point? Because in our connected world, there’s an increasingly complex set and subset and subsubset of communications and levels of intimacy. I’d love to see and use a diagram that showed how those fit together.