Living in a house of sand?

Earli­er today I read an excel­lent essay by Umair Haque titled The Social Media Bubble, hos­ted on the Har­vard Busi­ness Review blog. Quite simply, the essay, (the first part of two, it seems) pos­its: “Des­pite all the excite­ment sur­round­ing social media, the Inter­net isn’t con­nect­ing us as much as we think it is. It’s largely home to weak, arti­fi­cial con­nec­tions, what I call thin rela­tion­ships.” After that hypo­thes­is, the author then goes on to touch on points of rela­tion­ship, trust, dis­em­power­ment, hate, exclu­sion and value to sup­port his pos­i­tion. …more

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