OMG, what do the people in that place think about that thing?
You know, we have a global interface capable of sharing essentially limitless amounts of information, and it is used as a place to gossip, and a simultaneous extension of, and weakening of, community.
I wonder how many of you remember desks with phones and typewriters. Turns out life was still worth living back then, and perhaps more worth living, based on increasing rates of suicide and related depression.
Maybe we should blame reduced rates of smoking. I am 36% serious.
Maybe we should blame the dilution of social bonds through their replacement with virtual equivalents. I am 86% serious there.