Visiting scholar at Columbia University and creator of the phrase "Virtual Reality", recently wrote an article titled, "You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto" where he laments the evils of modern day communication.
“The most effective young Facebook users are the ones who create successful online fictions about themselves,” he says. “They must manage off-hand remarks and track candid snapshots at parties as carefully as a politician . . . avoiding the ever-roaming evil eye of the hive mind, which can turn on an individual at any moment. A Facebook Generation young person who suddenly becomes humiliated online has no way out, for there is only one hive.”
So seeeerious, but ultimately true, we don't believe 95% of the things we see on facebook, there is no way this person is in a complicated relationship with this person.
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