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WHYVILLE HELP : GALLERY : DR. LEILA : SEARCH : SUBMIT : STAFF : HOME May 18, 2014

 

Accidental Experiment: Friendless and Social Media

BooksRus reduces the role of social media in her life.

We are all extremely attached to social media. There, I said it. And I will say it again: we are all extremely attached to social media. What bothers me the most is that I never see people meeting in coffee shops any more; and if people go to coffee shops, their MacBook air, pro, god-knows-what-else is always tagging along (this doesn't apply exclusively to Apple users; PC users are also equally to blame). People do not stop on the street to talk to their neighbors. People are afraid to talk loudly on the bus, opting to scroll through Twitter instead.

In fact, if you strike up a conversation on the bus, people start giving you strange looks and move seats. When an individual is crossing a street and there are cars stopped at a red light, do you notice that the individual looks at their phone the entire time? I see this very often. It's as if the phone is the companion that the individual needs by their side at all times in order to justify and reassure others of their popularity; of their conformity; of their belonging. The art of conversation is slowly dying away - that is evident; however, something intriguing is happening.

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Delirium

MeBeLizzi reviews a book where love is outlawed.

Love. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't. What would you say if you were told that? I don't know about you, but I would look at whoever spoke those words to me like they were on some kind of drug. For Lena though, those words are normal. It's several years into the future, and Lena Haloway is terrified of catching the disease. There are 95 days until her birthday, and then she will be cured; but things can change in only a moment, which Lena soon finds out.

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