Monday, February 02, 2009

Time and Friends and Technology

E-mail. Social media. Friendships.
It's funny how Twitter, Facebook, cell phones and everything "social media" should give us opportunities to communicate across great distances...renew friendships...cultivate new ones. BUT, isn't it amazing how that these great technologies, like just about every other one before these, have provided wonderful opportunities to communicate with great breadth, but with little depth. What is the courteous way to end a IM Chat? With a friend you've known for decades? With someone you don't know as well? What about a telephone call? Is it just a 42-year old who has changed? Or is it the technology?

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