Friday, February 4, 2011

The great disconnect: Using Facebook for social distance - The Globe and Mail

The great disconnect: Using Facebook for social distance - The Globe and Mail: "When’s the last time you blocked someone on Facebook? Or groaned through another tedious voice message from your mother? Or pretended you missed days of texts from that irksome friend?

“You can ‘process’ people as quickly as you want to,” professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other."

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