2.20.11 Adam News & Info

My, that is unusual.

Ummmh...? ... who would want that...? I mean, even though there is Adam, but his company...?

Another point that might be helpful when stanning Adam in general is that when you follow Google down the rabbit hole you are going to be stumbling into totally foreign cultures and sub-cultures crossing boundaries of all kinds, language, religion, geographic, etc. Remember that before you jump in and start commenting. Take the time to try to understand the communities you are encountering. Blogs and websites are like tribes, they have their own individual rules and conventions and histories and when you stumble into them you will not know these things without doing your own investigating. Also when outsiders show up here and jump in with criticism remember that they don't know us and don't have a proper frame of reference to interpret what we are saying. The unwritten rule of thumb on the internet from the beginning of bulletin boards is that you should read an entire thread before commenting at the very least and that on a new board you should read as much of the history as you can before commenting. If you can't or won't do that then at least refrain from making snap judgements and ask questions to determine if you assessment of something is correct. These common courtesies were well established before the internet took off like a rocket but since then many who have entered this world have not had the opportunity to be informed of those courtesies.

This is one of the reasons that the internet has come to be regarded as a fairly lawless place. In the early days newbies used to get mentored by older users and taught the unwritten rules but eventually the growth out paced the ability of older users to keep pace and many of the newcomers reacted badly to being told how to behave. Internet message boards used to be very insular communities without much crossover but the world wide web changed that.

As an example I remember when I first joined the official U2 forum my daughter was absolutely appalled that people had pictures and gifs and animations in their signature lines that were three to five inches tall and regularly posted pictures and gifs in any and all threads. All of the communities she was a part of had strict limits on sizes of signature lines and separate threads were kept for photos, videos and gifs. This was a courtesy that allowed users with dial up or metered internet usage or poor connection to enjoy the communities without having to load pages with bandwidth intensive content unless they wanted too. Just in one thread I showed her she said every one of those posts would have gotten you banned for discourtesy. What was perfectly acceptable and even encourage on this particular U2 site would have gotten you kicked off of some of the sites she was a member of.

Just some things for people to keep in mind if you are going to explore every mention of Adam.

I just have to say my friends 10 year old daughter loves this song listens to all the kid bop albums. She sings this really well loves Adam now. Had me play IIHY video yesterday knows the words to this one as well must be on another kidz album.