Yet New York University now offers a seminar called Facebook in the Flesh, reports the New Yorker. The idea is to help freshmen who already know dozens of their classmates online but who worry they don't know how to make new friends in person. That's the fear and the whimsy behind NYU assistant dean David Schachter's decision to hold the workshop, even though he says he's never been on Facebook and his advice to students parallels exactly what users already do online.
The mind boggles.
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This is all because a lot of people apparently spend a lot of time conversing online rather than in the flesh. And in order to keep up with all these relationships, we're supposedly not being as attentive to the people around us as we should. Not our loved ones, mind you, but the people we encounter casually as we go about our lives: bank tellers, dog walkers, grocers.
Tell me again why I should spend less time with the people I love and more time with strangers?
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But rudeness is a separate issue from connectivity. Mobile devices should not make us impolite.
Read more.
The mind boggles.
...
This is all because a lot of people apparently spend a lot of time conversing online rather than in the flesh. And in order to keep up with all these relationships, we're supposedly not being as attentive to the people around us as we should. Not our loved ones, mind you, but the people we encounter casually as we go about our lives: bank tellers, dog walkers, grocers.
Tell me again why I should spend less time with the people I love and more time with strangers?
...
But rudeness is a separate issue from connectivity. Mobile devices should not make us impolite.
Read more.
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