Blue Skin. (noun) An identification problem resulting from [[Implicit Attribute|Implicit Attributes]]. Whenever an important attribute of oneself, or one's ideal: - romantic partners, - career path, - friends or friend groups, is an [[Implicit Attribute]] of the [[Implicit Attribute Types|Self Aware type]], one faces a Blue Skin Problem. --- The name is taken from a Shel Silverstein poem in which an important social search problem remains unsolved for a lifetime due to the concerned parties' failure to either broadcast or [[Information Mining|mine]] the attribute for which the target other is searching. Or in simpler terms, this: ![[blue.png]]