Thursday 10 February 2011

Are social networks blurring the lines of reality?


James Harkin, author of ‘Cyburbia’, has written an interesting article in the Daily Telegraph in which he suggests that online social networks are diminishing us as humans.

He says: “At its worst Facebook is a snarky, always-on slide show, like arriving at the worst dinner party imaginable – one where there's too many people but no one you really like, where everyone’s trying to come up with pithy quips and hand out fliers for their latest venture at the same time. Who are these people?”

For the full article, click here.