The document discusses the phenomenon of increased online connectivity through social media, highlighting the vast number of active users on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. It emphasizes a societal shift towards valuing digital connection over meaningful conversation, potentially leading to a decline in real-world interpersonal skills. The emerging reliance on virtual communication raises concerns about the impact on personal relationships and self-identity.

1. TOO MUCH CONNECTION?
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2. TWITTER HAS 269
MILLION ACTIVE
USERS
500
MILLION
TWEETS
PER DAY
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3. Google +
IS RACKING UP
LARGE
NUMBERS OF
NEW USERS
IT NOW CAN BOAST 359
MILLION ACTIVE USERS
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4. FACEBOOK IS NOW AT 1.06
BILLION MONTHLY ACTIVE
USERS
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5. IF FACEBOOK WERE A COUNTRY IT WOULD BE
THE THIRD LARGEST IN THE WORLD, BEHIND
ONLY CHINA AND INDIA
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6. FACEBOOK
SAW 57%
GROWTH IN
MOBILE
MONTHLY
USERS
THIS NUMBER EXCEEDED THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE
USING IT ON DESKTOPS ON A DAILY BASIS
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7. We live in a technological universe in which we are always
communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation
for mere connection.
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8. We are together, but each of us is in our own
bubble, furiously connected to keyboards
and tiny touch screens.
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9. THE LITTLE
DEVICES MOST
OF US CARRY
AROUND ARE SO
POWERFUL
THAT THEY CHANGE
NOT ONLY WHAT WE DO,
BUT ALSO WHO WE ARE.
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10. Self-presentation becomes more
important than self-representation in
constructing identity online.
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11. Texting and e-mail and posting let us present the
self we want to be. We can edit. And if we wish
to, we can delete.
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12. USERS
CONSCIOUSLY
CHOOSE AN
IMAGE THAT
OMITS SOME
FLAWS OF WHICH
THEY BELIEVE
OTHERS WILL
DISAPPROVE
OR DEEM
INAPPROPRIATE.
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13. We have high accessibility to so many people,
and we’re choosing breadth over depth and a
virtual world over the real world.
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14. NEARLY 40% OF AMERICANS NOW SPEND MORE
TIME SOCIALIZING VIA THE INTERNET THAN
THEY DO IN REAL LIFE.
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15. It seems that over time we stop caring, we
forget that there is a difference, between
connection and conversation..
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16. But connecting doesn’t work as
well when it comes to
understanding and knowing one
another.
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17. IF YOUR
RELATIONSHIP
IS ONLY
THROUGH A
COMPUTER
YOU ARE
LOSING THAT
PERSONAL
CONNECTION.
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18. A reliance on virtual world communications
could lead to a deficiency in real world
abilities.
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19. WE EXPECT MORE
FROM TECHNOLOGY
AND LESS
FROM ONE
ANOTHER,
AND…
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20. Seem increasingly drawn to
technologies that provide the
illusion of companionship without
the demands of relationship.
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21. Not too long ago,
people walked with
their heads up,
looking at the
water, the sky, the
sand and at one
another, talking...
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22. Now they often walk with their
heads down, typing.
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23. SOURCES
• hSp://www.nyUmes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/
sunday/the-­‐flight-­‐from-­‐conversaUon.html?
pagewanted=all
• hSp://ca.ign.com/arUcles/2013/05/02/report-­‐google-­‐
bigger-­‐than-­‐twiSer-­‐with-­‐359-­‐million-­‐acUve-­‐users
• hSp://ca.ign.com/arUcles/2013/05/02/report-­‐google-­‐
bigger-­‐than-­‐twiSer-­‐with-­‐359-­‐million-­‐acUve-­‐users
• hSp://www.academia.edu/1878518/
IdenUty_ConstrucUon_on_Facebook
• hSp://fuseduluth.blogspot.ca/2013/01/conversaUon-­‐
vs-­‐connecUon.html
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