Of all the social networking activities that we have done so far, I find this the most unsettling. Are there so many people so deprived of close personal relationships out there that they must go to strangers for validation of their lives? Is this yet another example of the Pod People philosophy of It’s All About Me? Or is this an illustration of an aspect of mob psychosis, anonynity of action amidst the sea of others?
Okay, maybe that’s too harsh. I am no trained psychologist, though I can see such a profession easily evolving-Psychoses of the Internet, Cyber Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Virtual Clinical Depression. Talking about your computer getting a virus.
Perhaps I am totally outside the generational loop. As a young lady just mentioned to me recently, this Pod People generation have grown up and into this environment of sharing the personal parts of their lives. This was alluded to in Mr. Richardson opening lecture. Maybe this approach is the only outlet for the alienated, the dispirited, the alone, the pressured, can. It is just a shame that there is no way to give them a hug.
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