Is Twitter making you feel less lonely?
PostedbyChris BenjamininInternetonMar 7th, 2009 | 0 commentsYou sleep with your boss’ lover. You steal a stranger’s dog. Or you win the lottery. Who is the first person you tell? And who is the second?
I ask only because I came across this utterly depressing conclusion about humanity from John Cacioppo, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago: Americans have fewer people to confide in now than they did 20 years previously.
Apparently, it’s down to two from three.
In 2004, 25 percent of people claimed that they had not been able to confide in anyone for six months. Twenty years previously, that figure had only been 7 percent.
For some people, this might explain at least one of the attractions of Twitter–or any other social-networking contraption. You feel you have to tell someone. So you tell, well, everyone. Or at least everyone that you can friend, name, follow, stalk, or badger into accepting your offer of association.
Read the full article at CNET News.
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Is Twitter making you feel less lonely?
PostedbyChris BenjamininInternetonMar 7th, 2009 | 0 commentsYou sleep with your boss’ lover. You steal a stranger’s dog. Or you win the lottery. Who is the first person you tell? And who is the second?
I ask only because I came across this utterly depressing conclusion about humanity from John Cacioppo, a professor of psychology at the University of Chicago: Americans have fewer people to confide in now than they did 20 years previously.
Apparently, it’s down to two from three.
In 2004, 25 percent of people claimed that they had not been able to confide in anyone for six months. Twenty years previously, that figure had only been 7 percent.
For some people, this might explain at least one of the attractions of Twitter–or any other social-networking contraption. You feel you have to tell someone. So you tell, well, everyone. Or at least everyone that you can friend, name, follow, stalk, or badger into accepting your offer of association.
Read the full article at CNET News.
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