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Cell phones? Pagers? Television? Telephones? Radio? Moving pictures? Tax funded postal systems? Fountain pen? The written word instead of purely oral history?
Think of what it has meant through the years for soldiers and loved ones. For protests, movements, and unions. For teenagers, lovers, and long lost friends. For parents, grandparents, stepparents, and estranged parents. Political prisoners, authors, and artists - those who are depressed or elated reaching out to speak or write to someone who "couldn't be there".
When I hear, what I perceive to be, hostile, irrational condemnations of Facebook, I often wonder at what point communication technology should have stopped developing. Even what is often their main argument - that we are losing touch with one another in terms of face-to-face, "real" socializing is belied by the considerable slowing of activity on weekends and holidays.
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I think communication technology development should have ceased when...(please elaborate) | |
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I think communication technology should continue to develop. | |
10 (91%) |
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