Anti-social media? (via Newspaper to New Media)

I am living isolated from my friends and family, with little to nothing in common with locals here in Springfield. Without technology devices I would likely have gone insane a while ago. Here a woman is doing a social experiment with physical but not technological isolation. The results would be interesting in regards to space travel for instance. A six month journey to Mars would be a bit isolating, don’t you think?

Could you communicate only through Twitter, Facebook and video chatting with your friends and loved ones for 30 days? One Portland, Ore., woman is in the process of finding out. Cristin Norine has embarked on a 30-day Public Isolation Project to learn how technology walls people off even while connecting them. Norine, who is living in a small storefront art gallery, in complete public view, will only communicate via technological-based forms of c … Read More

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