So….. the Subway map.

As I had hoped, this thing is really reaching far on the interwebs, and that’s been nice to see. It’d be disingenuous of me not to admit being a little bummed seeing the Tumblr staff feature a tiny version of the map on someone else’s Tumblelog… without even link credit or a high rez version. Not so much because I wanted the reblogs or the traffic, but I guess because it made me a little disillusioned with the Tumblr folks. I didn’t think they did that. I mean, there aren’t that many Radar posts in rotation. They couldn’t have done a quick search to see if it was duplicate content?

Ah well, never the less, I’m really happy to see so many of you enjoying it. And I have to admit, I’m also having fun with some of the placement criticisms.

When I first came up with the idea a couple weeks ago, I thought it might be a good way to refresh myself, not just on the geography of the series, but on the events that have passed. It would force me to take a sort of crash course on what we’ve seen so far. I also thought it might be a good way to get to know the Island a little better.

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I had a few places I thought this should go from a Lost mythology standpoint. Either at the north end of the Island, at the south end of the Island, or somewhere in the middle. These three photos were used in my calculation.

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Okay, so hypothetically speaking… let’s say you were, oh I don’t know, hanging out in Ana Lucia’s Tiger Pit… and you suddenly remember you need to get to the Hydra for a breakfast meeting with Ben. Here’s the route I’d take:

I’d first, of course, hop on the Purple Line A Train westbound to the Tailies crash site, switch to the M Train southbound to The Staff. Then I’d switch to the Blue Line P Train northbound loop to the Drug Plane, where I’d switch to the Green Line south… any of those trains will get you there… except maybe the R… I think it only runs on weekends.

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Let’s see if I can keep this one short! I thought my last post would touch on what we were discussing in previous comments about trying to find a balance between growing up in one town and moving around a lot. But it didn’t really fit so I’m going to try and quickly summarize here why I think social networks are helping in that regard.

Or, rather, the Internet. Things just seem to have sped up since the inception of social networking. Actually, I’d say it’s more due to more and more sites requiring less and less technical know-how to navigate. That and the exposure each new generation has to technology. As those generations get older, the more mainstream it gets.

Which is fitting since I do think exposure is key. The Internet opens our worlds up. We can live in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere and still see the sights of the world. We can have to move every three years and still be connected to friends we knew in elementary school. We’re exposed to so much more. And we expose more and more of ourselves as well.

We make friends with people around the world via a few different websites not because it’s exciting to make new friends but because we can see that we’re all fundamentally the same. It used to be a lot easier to ignore the plights of others. But now that we’re constantly confronted with images and video and chatting with the very people who need help, it’s harder to pretend it’s not as bad as you’ve heard.

Likewise, we share celebrations of joy. Whether you love or hate the holidays, you probably commiserated with at least one person online who felt the same way last month, right? And birthdays. Ha. If you’ve ever put agreed to have your birthday listed on any site, you’re guaranteed to have least one person online waiting to greet you when the day arrives. Woe betide the person who hates birthdays but forgot to make that information private on Facebook!

Not that there aren’t negative aspects to it. But isn’t that always the way? Or is it just because I’m a big believer in yin yang? Either way, I do think it enriches our lives in new ways, exposes us to the possibilities. There are still going to be people who prefer small town life to moving from city to city. But I think that’s become much more of a choice than it was in the past.