Is Social Media Redefining Relationships?
Keliy Anderson Staley and Matt Williams
Russellville, Arkansas, 2013
met via Hampshire College
© Tanja Hollander
A Friend Is Someone
Who (Kinda) Knows You
Social media allows people to connect at any point of their lives, no matter when or how physically far, and no matter how well or how little we know one another.
New tools make it easy to share words, photos, or videos instantly with one person, with all of our connections, or even with the whole world.
But has social media really improved relationships?
Turns out that a lot of people, from researchers to artists, are exploring this question in fascinating projects.
Tanja Hollander’s Meet-Up Project
In 2011, Tanja Hollander starting thinking about all her Facebook friends. She asked herself, “Am I really friends with all these people?” She decided to take a road trip and visit...
