1. Image By: Anssi Koskinen (Flickr)
The Age of Digital
Relationships By Nathan MacTavish

2. Image By: Rishi Bandopadhay(Flickr)
Services like
Facebook are
showing our
personal lives to
broader
audiences

3. Image By: Ryan Swift (Flickr)
47.4% of
Canadians are
using social
media once per
month.
Source: Michael Oliviera (The Globe and Mail)

4. Image By: Justin Kerr (Flickr)
Canadians sent 78 billion
text messages in 2011
Source: Huffington Post

5. Image By: Konstantin Leonov (Flickr)
The internet is
connecting more
people, creating
non-stop online
relationships

6. Image By: Andrea Actis Oreglia(Flickr)
Want to meet
up…?
…better text
first

7. Image By: Eden Pictures (Flickr)
You can’t just
show up at
someone’s
doorstep
anymore

8. Image By: Michele Ursino (Flickr)
Although you may
still be connected
while you are
apart…

9. Image By: Matthias Weinberger(Flickr)
…no matter where or when…

10. Image By: Ron Wiecki (Flickr)
…through multiple
generations…

11. Image By: Jens Rost(Flickr)
…the need
for constant
connection is
hurting
physical
conversation
s

12. Image By: Dave Sag (Flickr)
People are even now wearing
headphones to work, avoiding
conversation

13. Staying connected can have consequences…
Image By: Ed Poor (Wikimedia Commons)

14. Constant
connectio
n can lead
to tension
Image By: Lawrence Whittemore(Flickr)

15. Image By: Jessica Lucia (Flickr)
What you post
or text is
instantaneous
…

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…often with
unreadable
emotion…

17. Image By: Andrew Rennie (Flickr)
…so you better
watch what you
say.

18. Talking face-to-face can
even make you happier
Image By: Mo Riza (Flickr)

19. U.S. researchers found that key emotion-linked hormones
…responded in potentially beneficial ways when the girls
talked over a stressful event with their mothers compared
to when they texted about it. Source: Maureen Salamon (US News)
Image By: Elyse Patten (Flickr)

20. Image By: Jason Hoover (Flickr)
So I say, look up, look at one
another, and let’s start the
conversation-Sherry Turkle