Online Social Networking and Shallow Connections (via There can be no knowledge without freedom)
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 10: MC Hammer speaks in Sydney on the power of social media at the University of Technology on November 10, 2009 in Sydney, Australia. Hammer is followed by 1.5 million people on social networking site Twitter, and the 14th most influential Tweeter in the world. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife)
Is Social Media helping or hurting us? This post explores this idea.
As we all know by now, technology is potentially as crippling as it is advantageous. This is a theme that dates back at least as far as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, in which Shelley examines the disastrous consequences of biotechnology. But we don’t need to create Frankenstein in order to redefine human relationships and behavior. Changing the ways in which we interact with each other is sufficient. Superficiality One of the possible downfalls of … Read More
One comment