I came across this article, where college students decided to do a bold experiment and black out social media for a week (could have been us:) ). This drew my attention since I'm a Facebook user myself. Before Facebook, e-mail was the fastest way to connect with friends since mailing handwritten letters and developed pictures was no longer an option. I noticed with younger generation that the phone call is no longer an option either... it's all about texting, tweeting, etc. It might be ironic, but it looks like the more ways there are to communicate, the less people do so. One of my friends was surprised that someone asked her to add them as a friend on the Facebook, however would not say "Hi" passing in the hallway. It's no surprise that people would do that more for numbers and not for actual communication. Even corporate companies started to forbid social sites, so co-workers would actually talk to each other. Like it's said in the article:
"Do we really want to be enslaved to Facebook or Twitter? Once you create anything in social media, you have to feed the beast. When you stop adding content, you disappear." Would disappearance effect how we communicate with true friends?
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I read about this in the on-line magazine Inside Higher Education. I wonder whether students at North Central College could actually survive an entire week without Facebook. Basically, for a lot of students, FB has become a platform for everything else they do online, substituting for e-mail (as you point out), for blogging, for news sites, etc. One student in a class last term said she spends on average 7 hours a day on FB. 7 hours a day!
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