Image via WikipediaAn excellent piece, a good lecture to enter the week-end, from The New Yorker, by Susan Orlean, about the new social index of our lives.
This new side of the relationships are revealing the superficial side of the virtual connections and the ridiculous situations of fake human empathy. For example, for me it is very funny to observe the interactions that anonymous people are having with personalities on Facebook on the occasion of what used to represent very private moments: birthdays, anniversaries, death etc. Out of nowhere, they are assailed with various congratulations and emoticons. And, the influence-effect is working very well, as people use to follow the example of the others when it is about this kind of collective behavior.
The serious part is the potential you have, if really part of the network, to change and trade ideas. You can get information useful for your work, academic career or personal life. But, the choice for the network is always yours.
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