naming blogs is easy: a response to the august 2012 atlantic monthly's letters section, which quoted a lot of blogs that seemed to miss the...

maura:

Here is the important thing about social media and loneliness: So many people in this letters section have said “but the Internet makes me less lonely” and “well, I’ve met more people because of the Internet.” And yes. Those are both true, especially for the wordy haughty (and possibly too…

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  2. jrichmanesq said: FOMO is the new YOLO
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    I’m on a Twitter hiatus for reasons I’m still not 100% sure of — did I just lose the urge to communicate in brief...
  4. bunnycaper said: Agree! But I do enjoy the “connectivsm” aspect of social media where you have this huge network of people so your knowledge resource is so vast. Sometimes you have to ask for the information.
  5. openareas said: Not to mention its ability to keep you from being present in the present.
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    “But to deny that doing so doesn’t have existential consequences is to cheerlead against the idea of quietude, not to...