I’m in the middle of reading (listening to actually) Turkle’s Reclaiming Conversation and it seems to be a continual stream of examples describing just how the brevity of phone based stories (messages, social media, images) had had a significant impact on the way that quite literally billions of people communicate. I mused about this earlier here. To hear it from Turkle, these brief messages are not actually anywhere near able to provide for better connections.
A raft of choices, a rapid pace, and FOMO are addicting people to short messages. They create a disembodied life within a simulacra. With so much time spent plugged in, people are failing to connect IRL.
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