online and offline friends
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Film 260 Flipbook by Kadir KeskinTRANSCRIPT
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Are Facebook Friends Really Your Friends?By: Kadir Keskin
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On Average Most People have 229 “Friends” on Facebook
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In reality we only have few friends which we interact with daily
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Real Friends help us out in tough times, listen sympathetically no matter what,
lend us money or provide for a place to stay if needed
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We stand so close yet so far apart
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“Walking through a college library or the campus of a high-tech start-up, one sees the same thing:
we are together, but each of us is in our own bubble, furiously connected to
keyboards and tiny touch screens” Sherry Turkcle NYTimes, Flight From Conservation
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How many of your Facebook “Friends” have you NOT
spoken to in the past year?
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In reality we only keep in touch with very few of our Facebook “friends”
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“In the silence of connection, people are comforted by being
in touch with a lot of people — carefully kept at bay””Sherry Turkcle NYTimes Flight From Conversation
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“We can’t get enough of one another if we can use technology to keep one another at
distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just right”
Sherry Turkle NYTimes Flight From Converstaion
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“E-mail, Twitter, Facebook, all of these have their places — in politics, commerce, romance and
friendship. But no matter how valuable, they do not substitute for conversation.”
Sherry Turkle NYTimes Flight From Conversation
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“…and we’ll have generations of people who are more comfortable texting their friends
than talking to them in person””By Mark Glasser PBS “How Cellphones are Killing Face to Face Interactions”
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“Or perhaps they will prefer to sit around and listen to their own iPods separately rather than
having the shared experience of hearing music on a stereo system.”
By Mark Glasser PBS “How Cellphones are Killing Face to Face Interactions”
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“…being constantly connected to gadgets is
akin to what psychologists called a dissociative
disorder”Cynthia Brumfield – IP Democracy
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The result is replacing real human interaction with online “friends”
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“Face to Face conversation unfolds slowly. It teaches patience”
Sherry Turkle NYTimes Flight From Conversation
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“All forms of communication work best when they lead to the sharing of ideas and
recommendations, especially face to face.”By Ed Keller and Brad Fay USA Today
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Isolation from real human interaction makes us lose the ability to hold a real conversation with
others offline
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As a result of the isolation we put more distance with our real friends and adapt more and more
online friends
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“But if we want to promote real change — as in our politics, public policies and cultural
behavior — it's best we do it face to face.”By Ed Keller and Brad Fay USA Today
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Social interaction is vital to our health both physically and mentally
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“In time our “friends” on Facebook just become acquaintances that have entered our lives
during a certain time frame”
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Although Facebook is a great tool to reconnect with old “friends”, we must acknowledge the difference between online interactions and
offline interactions
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Technology can never replace the value of real human interaction
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Sources• http://www.traumaregister.co.uk/Articles/Human_Health_Contact.htm• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kari-henley/are-facebook-friends-real_b_180204.html• http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/story/2012-04-29/facebook-face-to-face/54629816
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• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
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