Comment #1

Here's a link to my comment of Brittany's blog
http://bbecker771.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/data-presentation-do-you-pretend-to.html?showComment=1350549855974#c6962052026100415036

Just in case that didn't work this is what I wrote:

Hi Brittany, I really like your idea for your data discussion and completely agree. Although technology has been designed to connect people, there seems to be more socially disconnected people than ever before.

People are using technology as a means to avoid communicating with others. A similar example I thought of was when people avoid potentially hard, awkward, conversations by sending a text instead of facing the person and dealing with whatever their reaction may be (good, bad or ugly). In my opinion this is a real problem because as people are avoiding dealing with face-to-face interactions the result is often a lot of hurt, confused and socially disconnected people.

I actually posted a video in my last blog that I think you would find very helpful for your essay. Here's the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7Xr3AsBEK4

It's titled "Connected, but alone" and is all about how the world is increasingly emotionally disconnected from one another as they are missing vital face-to-face contact with others and instead replacing it with computer mediated conversation

All the best :)