Social Media make us more isolated or more social?

 Social Media and Technology- good or bad?

I love Social Media and I think we can't deny that a Digital Revolution is taking place. The world as we know it is changing-whether we like it or not. What it is important, in my opinion, is to decide how we will be using all these new tools and resources.

Dr. SherryTuckle, a Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, criticizes social media and their impact on our society nowadays. There is a positive and a negative side of this revolution we are experiencing: some people are using social media to build incredible resources and networks of knowledge or support, but on the other side, there are people who are completely "hooked" to it, and the new generations don't even apologize personally to somebody- they do it on Facebook. These days you see parents in the park that are working in their laptops while their children are playing or checking their blackberries while they are telling a story to their kids before going to bed. Is this what we want as a society? On the other side, there is a lot of people on the net that are promoting a "living in the present" philosophy, which translates in doing one thing at a time. They advocate that technology is a very good thing but we need to decide when, where and how to use it before it is the other way around.

You can watch Dr. Sherry Tuckle in this video if your are interested:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLVCpZIiNs