I wasn’t really sure what else to title this but I was very inspired by a blog post by Mitch Joel over at Six Pixels of Separation. Check it out there for full post.
The thought that generated from it was from the theme of Social Networking being a strong form of entertainment, instead of sitting mindlessly drooling in front of the TV.
I like that.
There is the thought that the internet is causing us to avoid real human contact all the while building our lives online and therefore breeding antisocialism. While in part this is true (there’s nothing like a face-to-face coffee time) yet the usual turning-on-the-TV-and-turning-off-the-brain as our main form of entertainment is quite a bit more “king” in antisocial. We ARE connecting more, we ARE sharing ideas more, and we ARE sharing our lives more… and this is taking on our form of entertainment.