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Connect or disconnect?

Posted by mwelch September 20, 2007 04:30 PM

Source: Roughtype

Nicholas Carr blogs about a new study that says Americans are having less sex and spending less time with friends in order to stay online longer. Wondering whether avatars or online porn may in fact be "uh, taking up the slack," Carr comments that "our rapidly deepening reliance on the Net strikes me as being less a sign of media addiction… than of technological dependency." He predicts a counter-movement is on the way and advises marketers to look for "the "digitivity dropouts," who make disconnectivity the next big thing."

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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/09/only_disconnect.php

tags addiction, technology
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