Tonight I was driving the shuttle bus to the airport to pick up some people and listening to the radio. An ad came on--perhaps ONStar--and the announcer referred to constant connectivity to keep people safe and comforted.
Wit everybody texting and tweeting constantly, not involved in the world around them, it could be argued that constant cyberspace connectivity is an addiction. When one loses interest in the world around one, when one forgets how to converse with any casual stranger or neighbor, when one is so constantly hooked up to electronic groupism with other people texting and tweeting back, that one has no quality time with the self to further develop as an individuator, then it is time to reduce and control our immersion in this electronic world.
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