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SCM VI: Our Disintegrating Society
“…a healthy civilization is led by a creative minority, setting society’s behavioral standards…” Here is a link to an article on The American Spectator about Facebook and narcissism:...
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Did You Know This?
Are you aware that 20% of our high school graduates can be classified as functionally illiterate? Does this perhaps have something to do with the fact that boys and girls read, on average, a mere 30-40...
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Facebook Is Watching You.
You can say that you have Facebook to stay in touch with your friends. But like it or not, you won’t be able to have a private conversation. Facebook is public. Even if you don’t mean it to happen,...
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Catch a Glimpse of Conversation These Days, And You’ve Got a Miracle In Your...
Conversation (and here I mean real, live, face-to-face conversation) is officially a Lost Art. Facebook deserves at least an honorable mention in the subtle slaughter of true conversation. For the...
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We Joke… Sort Of
So Dr. Boli [http://drboli.wordpress.com] is at it again with his sometimes bizarre, sometimes comic, and sometimes delightfully pointed sense of fun. Are the following advertisements from his...
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More Facebook = Less Real Experience
Christine Rosen makes a good point here in an article entitled “Awe and the Machine.” I do find it lamentable that most of us understand very, very little about the science at work behind our...
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Laugh Every Now and Again
Compliments of Unhappy Hipsters: It’s Lonely in the Modern World. This interesting site thrives on pictures like the one below, with often amusing captions. (http://unhappyhipsters.com/) “It was hard...
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Odysseus Encounters Facebook, and Other Stuff
A little while back at Text Patterns, Alan Jacobs responded to the claim that opting out of technology like Facebook is no longer possible. His reply was very commonsensical: “I love this...
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Sent In…
Hope you enjoy this lyrical reflection on Facebook by Mark Gallagher as much as I did… Scottish Poem Against Facebook. (a la Robert Burns) Am a cyber-geek at Facebook High, Maist friend requests get...
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