Food For Thought

Here are a few quoted lines from an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times:

I can see the appeal of a virtual community. I’ve joined three or four of these groups,

… [But]

One effect of so much social networking — so many overlapping communities of interlinked individuals — is that the language of actual human interaction begins to feel degraded. What can the word “friend” mean after Facebook, where it is really a synonym for “coincidence”?

…

I hope there will be room soon for some anti-social Web sites — places on the Web where you can go to be alone, to hide from your “friends.” Perhaps that is what real life is for.

Verlyn Klinkenborg

Like Klinkenborg, I wouldn’t say social media is headed in the best direction for the survival of our current culture, but then again, without it, I wouldn’t have a job.

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