Thursday, March 5, 2009

social networking sites

Have a look at this interesting article on social networking sites and let me know what you think: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090220/tuk-get-off-facebook-and-get-a-life-dba1618.html
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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Good find Karen. However, to quote Dr Sigman: "One of the most pronounced changes in the daily habits of British citizens is a reduction in the number of minutes per day that they interact with another human being. In less than two decades, the number of people saying there is no one with whom they discuss important matters nearly tripled.” Sadly his research is proven to be heavily flawed; as has been pointed out by a multiplicity of papers, the huge growth of web2 is fuelled precisely by the type of interactions he denies, a need to communicate multiple issues, to dozens of people, often simultaneously, and he nowhere defines important matters. Perhaps he should consider Mazlow’s hierarchy of needs as to what is more important to the average person- a glass of water or psychometric profiling?, It is those whose social interactions and research parameters are defined by baby boomer mindsets that have difficulty in accepting the digital realities. I imagine that any average teenager has more social contacts on their mobile phones, meaningful within their own context, that Sigman has – they, after all, are digital natives.

March 5, 2009 at 4:53 PM
Anonymous said...

Sorry, should have said the info was sent to me by Colin Thomson. It's usually other people that find these interesting things !

March 5, 2009 at 4:55 PM

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