Twitter and Facebook don't connect people – they isolate them

So says the book Alone Together and cited in this Guardian story. I can understand the scepticism, people don't understand, it leads to fear and we don't know where or what its leading to. I think some of these academics are high in their ivory towers looking down wondering what the hell is going on. Remember when you were shushed for talking in the library?
Twitter is the new talking in the library. Are there unacceptable places to check your smart phone? Not if you're in a group of social media savvy friends.

Twitter doesn't connect people.
Hmmmm, professor Sherry Turkle definitely wasn't at Taquiera Mercado Saturday night when a group of people, some only knowing each other through twitter got together. Talking and laughing like old friends.
No, I don't think twitter seperates people at all, it brings people closer together.

TM tweetup
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Metromixx even got involved, new media dragging in the old. Or or they hanging on for dear life?
TM tweetup

David looked a little green when they handed him this, thanks for grabbing the check big guy
TM tweetup

when the party got too big to be contained by TM any longer we headed for OTR
Neon's
Neon's
Neon's
Neon's

Laura basking in the glow of a party well planned
Neon's

"We have invented inspiring and enhancing technologies, yet we have allowed them to diminish us," Turkle writes.
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6 comments?

6 comments:

  1. Looks like a heap of fun. Sad I couldn't make it. One day I'll get to meet all you neat folks.

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  2. Great post and pics Bob! So glad you (and everyone else) could make it. What an awesome time!

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  3. LOL Reading this just brought me back to this tweet ;)
    @5chw4r7z: its on its way RT @700BillRinehart @5chw4r7z can you pass the salt?

    See? who said twitter couldn't be used for good? :)

    PS good finally meeting you too lol

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  4. Like Josh O. said, for sure hope I get to meet all of you delightful and amazing people in person one day!

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  5. Sounds like it was a fun time! And the shot of Laura is simply stunning!

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  6. Thanks Lauren, I'm blessed with some very photogenic friends.

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