Some of us are on a mission to see how many friends we can acquire on Facebook or followers we can grab on Twitter. You can’t help but wonder: Are we so busy making new friends and spending time with them online that we are failing to nurture real-world friendships the old fashioned way? Is how we socialize online eroding our real-life relationships? Or maybe just changing them?
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Nice infographic– I especially like the two people standing next to one another…isn’t that the truth anymore? LOL…have to laugh at how funny, and lazy, we have all become because of computers.
Completely agree with you. We have become so lazy because of computers. Or maybe social networks just makes it easier for us to communicate?
This is something it is hard for many Social Media Evangelists to Accept.
We’ve all heard the arguments from Clay Shirky that Social Media helps us be free and helped the arab spring/other anti-tyrannical moments in history, but the 10 billion minutes we spend a day could go towards working towards real causes, like the Zapatista movement, or another social movement, versus a movement that does nothing but as all the emotional weight as if they are actually doing something.
We’d like to think Social Media will help us get outside of Dunbar’s Number, yet it does not. National parks are dying and I doubt kids spending 8 hours a day on smartphone/tablet helps very much.