Social Media Devours Our Time Online, Says Nielsen Study (Ed Oswald, August 2, PCWorld).
I don’t know if what I’m writing about should be considered paradoxical in nature to the above article, but I’m spending considerably more time on my blog; the fall semester at CSUN is quickly approaching and I’ll be swamped.
Anyway, I write this post with my dear sister Kelli in mind, as she recently visited with me for two weeks and managed to sustain a connection with Facebook during REM sleep. Absolutely incredible! In fairness to her, there were times we sat 2 feet across from each other at the kitchen table taping away on our computers conversing via Facebook. Fear not, this didn’t make up our entire time together as we did travel quite a bit and see some very interesting and emotionally sensitive places (which can be viewed on her Facebook page, ironically enough.)
Call me old-fashioned but I still prefer to communicate with my friends and family via e-mail. Facebook does have its advantages yet I think that it can be quite invasive with its numerous methods of bringing us all together–finding people that I don’t even remember knowing but it’s convinced that I do….
