raindrops evaporate because you are just too hot for me
IMAGINE THIS
750 million photographs uploaded over a single weekend. More than half its users— one of every 13 people on Earth is a Facebook user log on every day. Among 18-to-34-year-olds, nearly half check Facebook minutes after waking up, and 28 percent do so before getting out of bed.
In the last three months of 2011, users generated an average of 2.7 billion “likes” and comments every day.
WHERE ARE YOU IN THAT PERCENTAGE?
Solitude used to be good for self-reflection and self-reinvention. But now we are left thinking about who we are all the time, without ever really thinking about who we are.
Facebook denies us a pleasure whose profundity we had underestimated: the chance to forget about ourselves for a while, the chance to disconnect.
A recent study out of Australia titled “Who Uses Facebook?,” found a complex and sometimes confounding relationship between loneliness and social networking.
WHAT HAPPENED?
Self-service access to groceries-customers stopped having relationships with their grocers.
The telephone - people stopped knocking on their neighbors’ doors.
Revealing information by STEPHEN MARCHE from the Atlantic Magazine.
This is so true. During CNY, you walk into your relative's house and you find your relatives, using their phones instead of sitting around socialising in the form of talking to each other.
in the past, children played games with each other. the constant interaction, both verbally and physically. sure, today children also have such interaction. but, in the form of verbally speaking through the internet and physically being together next to each other on the chairs.
"feeling lonely and being alone is different."
"Feeling lonely is is an unpleasant feeling in which a person feels a strong sense of emptiness and solitude resulting from inadequate levels of social relationships while being alone is being in solitude but not feeling lonely and may be happy."
