What Glues Us Together

So, Tribe.net went down again. And a month's worth of stuff has been lost.
People are bitching. A lot. Including some of the usual suspects. I won't name names, because I want to be able to forget their very existence in a few weeks' time. And some of the rest of us are coming back at it, telling them to shut up.
Adversity can build community. The complainers (and let's not forget that I've been amoung them at least once) get scapegoated by the rest of us for neigh-saying. We beat up on them for their doubts. But even aside from that, we do come together in the wake of the problems. In some really weird way, we are getting a much more authentic experience than we would from facebook or myspace. I understand that yes, this is unacceptable. It's unacceptable in this age of computer born perfections. But all our systems are flawed, it's just that at Tribe.net the flaws are closer to the surface. Look at the recent economic break-down. That system was flawed. Does Tribe make us stronger? or is it simply that at the end of the world, we like a little company?