Here’s a new must-watch short film about the ironic reality of so-called “social media” that promise to create real community and human relationship but really function to generate a new kind of loneliness.
Beware “liking” or retweeting, which may well unleash waves of paradox that will warp the inner mind, rip a hole in the fabric of space and time, and manifest all manner of daimonic mischief.
What is the connection between Social Networks and Being Lonely?
Inspired by and based on the wonderful book by Sherry Turkle, Alone Together.
Also based on Dr. Yair Amichai-Hamburger’s Hebrew article “The Invention of Being Lonely.”
Script, Design & Animation: Shimi Cohen.
Final Project at Shenkar College of Engineering and Design.
Nicely-presented video, but I wonder how good the evidence is that people have been doing less in-person socializing since online social networking became popular–the article at http://www.spring.org.uk/2010/09/4-internet-psychology-myths.php seems to say that various studies have given conflicting or ambiguous answers about the link between isolation and internet use.
BTW, here’s my favorite video about what it feels like to live in a world of constant internet communication, titled “Online Now”: