Alt Text On Social Networking
“The Internet is to human interaction as Pringles are to potatoes. Closeness and companionship are ground up into an unrecognisable slurry then artificially reconstituted into a mockery of their natural form.” Priceless. I’ve become a a real fan of the Alt Text vidcasts and this one really sums up a lot of my feelings about […]
“The Internet is to human interaction as Pringles are to potatoes. Closeness and companionship are ground up into an unrecognisable slurry then artificially reconstituted into a mockery of their natural form.”
Priceless. I’ve become a a real fan of the Alt Text vidcasts and this one really sums up a lot of my feelings about social networking and especially the micro-quotidian aspects of sites like Twitter and Facebook. It’s not that these sites lack value, in fact I really appreciate the reconnecting aspect of Facebook, it’s just that it shouldn’t be confused with deeper aspects of human interaction. Sometimes less communication can mean more relation.
And, if you have time, check out the vidcast on Logical Fallacies (great if you have ever been sucked into inline debates).
