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One afternoon, while strolling through the Agora:

1.1 Glaucus: Apparently I am part of a trend that I didn’t even know existed.

Socrates: What trend are you part of that you didn’t know about?

Glaucus: Well, it seems that in reaction to the instantaneous information some people feel compelled to post about themselves on sites like twitter, some people have been doing this thing called slow blogging. Slow blogging is a thing where a person who makes a blog takes their time and really tries to write something long and considered, as opposed to simply blowing out mind farts every twenty minutes or so. The other thing is that these slow bloggers also like to take as long as they possibly can between posts sometimes going so long that their readers are almost ready to give up on the blog and then lo and behold, up comes a new well crafted post that sucks everybody back in.

Socrates: And what is your point?

Glaucus: My point is that this is what *I* do! I must be a slow blogger because I write really long posts and I take way way too much time between each one and everyone who reads my blog always complains that I never write anything! Before I thought I was just lazy, or at best more focused on other matters in my life, but now I realize that I am part of a movement. I belong!

Socrates: I think you are just lazy. Maybe that movement does exist, but you are not a part of it. You are not taking long gaps between your posts because you are trying to make any kind of point; you are doing it because you don’t have the motivation to write anything, or maybe (at best) because you feel like you have something better to do.

1.2. Glaucus: Now look over there, Socrates, do you see those people with the strange hair? Those are Emus, right?

Socrates: No, those aren’t Emus. Those are Floggers. Remember I was telling you about them? They dress up kind just like that and they share photos of themselves dressed up like that.

Glaucus: They look the same as the Emus to me.

Socrates: But the Emus only wear black. They have the same haircut, but they only wear black.

Glaucus: So then how are Emus different from Goths? Don’t Goths just wear black, too?

Socrates: Yeah, but Emus are more emutional then Goths. That’s the difference.

Glaucus: But they have the same hair as these people here.

Socrates: Yeah, kind of. You know what bothers me about these Floggers, though, it’s that they don’t actually have any kind of cause or reason for being. They just dress up that way and then go hang out at malls. At least with some other youth fashions you could say that there was some kind of cause…even Emus, you know, they are like the sensitive kids and they come together because everyone else is beating them up…even Punks, they have some kind of social message they are angry about (however addled it is), but Floggers just have nothing, all they do is use the technology available to them to distribute photos of themselves using the technology available to them while dressing up in stupid clothes. I just wish they were trying to address some social issue, but they really aren’t.

Glaucus: Well they look the same as the goddamn Emus to me.