Comments on: Social Networking: Enhancing or Consuming Lives? http://www.createourworld.net/2009/09/07/social-networking-enhancing-or-consuming-lives/ Hitchhiking the USA Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:32:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: jason http://www.createourworld.net/2009/09/07/social-networking-enhancing-or-consuming-lives/comment-page-1/#comment-90 jason Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:58:33 +0000 http://www.createourworld.net/?p=1093#comment-90 yep, i agree with your perspectives on what's happening with social media/networks in that balance is key (and not something most people have the willpower/desire to employ) and that ANY system is as successful or failed as the way people USE said system. it's an interesting time we live in and i do often think about how sad it is when technology appears to be consuming lives instead of enhancing. it's so easy to become overwhelmed and shut down by the amount of information available as our species has never had to cope with/comprehend the massive volume of varied information being thrown at us daily. personally i find it generally making people more self-involved and, at the same time, less self-aware. they become too reliant on these mediums to define who they are - i recently spent some time with a woman who was absolutely obsessed with facebook and twitter to the point she wouldn't know what to do with herself if either service were offline for any period of time. it was very sad to me. it will definitely be interesting to see what happens in the next 10 or 20 years to a generation growing up immersed in technology - perhaps they'll move toward becoming integrated even more with it and perhaps they'll reject it and go back to basics. anyway - this is a GREAT topic to discuss - thanks for bringing it up :] yep, i agree with your perspectives on what’s happening with social media/networks in that balance is key (and not something most people have the willpower/desire to employ) and that ANY system is as successful or failed as the way people USE said system. it’s an interesting time we live in and i do often think about how sad it is when technology appears to be consuming lives instead of enhancing. it’s so easy to become overwhelmed and shut down by the amount of information available as our species has never had to cope with/comprehend the massive volume of varied information being thrown at us daily. personally i find it generally making people more self-involved and, at the same time, less self-aware. they become too reliant on these mediums to define who they are – i recently spent some time with a woman who was absolutely obsessed with facebook and twitter to the point she wouldn’t know what to do with herself if either service were offline for any period of time. it was very sad to me.

it will definitely be interesting to see what happens in the next 10 or 20 years to a generation growing up immersed in technology – perhaps they’ll move toward becoming integrated even more with it and perhaps they’ll reject it and go back to basics.

anyway – this is a GREAT topic to discuss – thanks for bringing it up :]

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