Is Facebook making us lonely? Or, to cut to the chase, are Twitter, Google+, Facebook and their cohorts making us socially awkward curmudgeons, who are also lonely?
This is the question du jour and the subject of recent articles appearing in The New York Times and The Atlantic, as well as countless blogs.
Critics charge that the web of shallow—and ultimately unsatisfying—connections and pseudo conversations enabled by social media are replacing tangible interpersonal skills and (enriching) vis-à-vis banter. Aside from a hoodie-clad Mark Zuckerberg, who is to blame for this alleged de-evolution?
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