Are Social Networkers trapped in a superfical world?
Have we become self-obsessed/absorbed in Social Networking Sites that we have forgotten/choose not to look at the problems in society?
Are SNS’s a necessary/unecessary distraction from world events?
Do we feel the need to be closer to our friends at this time due to the type of society we live in?
Or has the social movement of online Social Networking made us forget the real world, thus becoming superficial and just plain shallow?
With reference to Richard Macmanus and Joshua Porter, are we now ‘designing more for machines than people’?
Even the author of the clip chooses to escape through lonelygirl15 !
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I think that while there is an issue of people spending more and more time online than face to face, there is something to be said for technology helping people to keep in touch, both locally and worldwide.
Lifestyles are constantly changing and society is changing and adapting also. It’s always on the move, progressing. People are finding themselves ever busier and more distant. Social Networking Sites are one tool to help readdress the balance but they can only become truly effective if the point of entry was affordable to all.
Society is only as cohesive as the people within it, and anything that helps to bring people together, no matter how small is a good thing.
But that’s just my opinion.
Posted 25 July, 2007, 2:31 pmI am agree with we feel the need to be closer to our friends at this time due to the type of society we live in. that’s what we are now.
cheers
Posted 2 September, 2009, 5:14 am