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Social Networking Alienation: Are We Becoming Disconnected?

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Social media is lauded as the one digital channel that truly revolves around the idea of bringing people together. While this is of course true, analysts and users are finding that its popularity can also be connected to a growing trend of alienation and loneliness. The fact that social media can be responsible for loneliness seems bizarre and counterintuitive at first, but a deeper understanding of the medium and the role it is playing in people’s lives makes this fact Read More

The Side of Social Media No One Talks About

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Social Media. Yes, it’s all the rage at the moment. But could this just be (…gasp!) a fad? Will we still be tweeting in 2015? Will Facebook and LinkedIn still be popular five, four, or even two years from now? Or will we have moved on to something else altogether? Aside from the compromised security issues and other well-documented misuses associated with some of these sites, there are other problematic aspects to social media right now that no one seems Read More