I admit: I am not a big fan of
social media. Don’t get me wrong: I’m checking my email every 30 min on my
phone, reading the news every 2 hours or so, heavily surfing online, so I am not an old-fashioned-not-digitized
kind of person. I would be dead without internet and even a two-day breakdown
will drive me crazy. I just do not agree we should necessarily build a second
life into the digital world.
We use technology to communicate all the time, and we think
that we have many friends behind the (touch)screen, we get closer to some people but
we do not interact physically with most of them, maybe can't even remember the voice or eye color for our closed ones.
Thinking of the implications, a question came up to me: what
if your only way to contact the world for a longer period of time would be by internet?
I found that question interesting, so I’ve started digging.
To my surprise, it was not at all original, and I
found a quite interesting experiment: actually someone lived isolated (meaning no physical
contact) from the real world for a full month, and I am not talking about
astronauts but about a real woman who lived in a fishbowl apartment in Oregon. The experiment is far to be scientific, it's more about how much of your life you want to live/share behind glass walls.
Here is the link to the article...and tell us what you
think!
PS: Don't you think we already have too many glass walls in the real world? why do we have to create more online?
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