In her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, MIT professor Sherry Turkle observes: We are changed as technology offers us substitutes for connecting with each other face-to-face.… As we instant-message, e-mail, text, and Twitter, technology redraws the boundaries between intimacy and solitude.… Teenagers would rather text than talk. Adults, too.… We build a following on Facebook … [but] wonder to what degree our followers are friends. We recreate ourselves as online personae … Yet, suddenly, in the half-light of virtual community, we may feel utterly
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