Originally networks such as Facebook or Twitter were a place to reconnect with people you may not have in contact with otherwise, when going off to college or moving. Now facebook and Twitter are becoming a overwhelming time consuming network that users feel obligated to update even hourly. For some users it is starting to control their lives.
Celebrities such as Miley Cyrus are starting to recognize this and take action, Cyrus deleted her Twitter last fall. Since then the trend of freeing yourself from networking continues. "That desire to unplug has made an unexpected success out of websites such as Web 2.0 Suicide Machine and Seppukoo, free sites that automate and turbocharge the otherwise laborious manual process of scrapping your online self." -Some ditch social networks to reclaim time, privacy.
What I am realizing now is we are less worried about old friends, and now getting bombarded with people we don't know and information we don't need. Once in the digitial society it is hard to leave, feeling as if you're going to miss something. We are wasting our time updating our status about who we went to dinner with, then enjoying dinner with that actual person. We need to remember to take time from networks or we may soon be so exhausted and not have any motivation left for "real life" face-to-face connection.
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