Ambient Intimacy

Ambient intimacy is about being able to keep in touch with people with a level of regularity and intimacy that you wouldn’t usually have access to, because time and space conspire to make it impossible.

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Knowing these details creates intimacy. (It also saves a lot of time when you finally do get to catchup with these people in real life!) It’s not so much about meaning, it’s just about being in touch.

-- Leisa Reichelt on Ambient Intimacy

Just thought I should blog it because ambient intimacy and ambient communication are two phrases which I've been using a lot recently. Ambient intimacy is a form of ambient communication -- but I'll expand on ambient communication later.