The Polliwog Journal

The Fakebook Generation
I have to admit, I never got on board with Facebook or MySpace or quite understood the need to accumulate friends with online social networking. Business or professional online networking I understand. I’ve been to Second Life and thought it was cool, but to hang there with people I don’t really know seems [...]

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Daniel Goleman, author of Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships, says in the New York Times, October 2007:
New findings have uncovered a design flaw at the interface where the brain encounters a computer screen: there are no online channels for the multiple signals the brain uses to calibrate emotions.
Face-to-face interaction, by contrast, [...]

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