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: I find all of this perfectly reasonable. At 789 I met lots of people who were inspired to begin hitchhiking because of the appearance of modern technological tools like Hitchwiki and hospitality networks, and the ideals of Casa Robino are becoming more and more popular among the organized European hitchhiking community. [[User:CRCulver|CRCulver]] 13:41, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
:: Agree that the contents are highly subjective. However, the sound of "it is growing, we see our community growing bigger and bigger" is coming exclusively from within a group of young internet junkies, which certainly is not a mainstream group. I guess that groups always claim that they are becoming stronger, especially if they are factually a small minority. Agree that on 789 you will meet the top of the pops of motivated young webbound hitchhikers; after all 789 is an internet initiative, and promoted exclusively within internet networks. The online hospitality exchange networks have a high reach among low budget travellers and the internet is available all over those days. But is this going to change the scene? After seven years of thumbing, 56,000 kms, I would not be too sure of that.
What is so interesting or exiting about technological features as phones and computers; it reflects a digi-life, what is the meaning of that? The little screens take the attention away from the real life.. .. Most people who hitchhike, do it during a certain period within their lives; somewhere it starts, somewhere it ends. On average people do not hitchhike more than a couple of years, so I guess, usually between 18 and 25 years old. Same applies to people on 789, but as said, such a small group has no significance in a broader view. Theorem: only a really small percentage of people who hitchhike and are active within hospitality exchange organisations likes to acknowledge the fact that their way of travelling is bound to be a marginal way of travelling. In other words: we see what we would like, hope or desire to see, in this case that hitchhiking is doing really well.
Individuals cannot change the society. --[[User:Fverhart|Fverhart]] 22:21, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
