Tara, I am totally with you. I am also more interested in the human social tendencies than arguing over whether email/computers/the internet are ruining the world. We can argue about that until the cows come home but it still remains at bottom people making choices and why we make the choices we do is what’s important. So yeah, skip this one because you won’t get any of that.

I’m generally way more interested in descriptive versus perscriptive/judgmental assessments of technology’s impacts on humanity/society: i.e. the reality of how humans (for good or ill) use tech rather than sky-is-falling assessments bemoaning that tech is ruining society in whatever way (even if it is .

Which isn’t to say I don’t make my own personal judgments on how/why humans are going off the rails on this, that or the other thing. But philosophically and discussionally (yes I’m making that a word ) speaking – I’m much more interested in exploring the underlying whys/hows of human/social tendencies that lead us to behave as we do on topics like this, than beating us all about the head simply for the fact that s/thing IS happening, or all the evils and ills it’s bringing.

Good to get your assessment of this one – as I’d seen and considered checking it out, but I’ll skip on past as I foresee having many of the same objections as you.

And no problem about the link. That post seems to be generating an extreme amount of conversation as does this one.

Until your next post.

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Another Day On Facebook

TPE, love your chickens! And I am thoroughly recovered so don’t be afraid to comment Now, for the email book. I think you will like it given what you have said. After you read it, please let me know what you think. You are right in your comment to ask who expects us to multi-task. I think part of it is us and part of it is the workplace especially in the current economy where places are trying to do the same amount of business with fewer employees. In terms of the social networking I think you are right about feeling frazzled from a pressure to keep up. But we do put that pressure on ourselves because there is no one making us update Facebook and Twitter and goodness knows what else. Unfortunately, I think many people are having a hard time stepping back and drawing a line because of social dynamics. Goodness, if I don’t update my Facebook status, I might lose my friends! It’s high school all over again. *shudder*

In what I must guess (and secretly hope) is the most random and inexplicable peace-offering you’ve ever been given, I offer you a picture (taken today) of two chickens from my garden. (I was going to say something on your Philosophising with Chickens post, but then suddenly thought better of it – I think I’ll wait a couple of weeks, let you recover, and then we may hope to start again.)

I’m not terribly good with html, so I’ll just need to hope that this link to the picture works. Here goes…..

Ta-da!

Did it work?

Kind regards etc…..

TPE