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"But we noticed that what they wrote at length about was how they hated losing their personal connections. Going without media meant, in their world, going without their friends and family," Susan D. Moeller, the study's leader, told the school's website. Keep in mind, these are kids whose lives are centered on a college campus with thousands of other students. One student wrote that he or she felt "alone and secluded from my life" without text or instant messages. Another, who failed the experiment, said he or she wouldn't have known about the earthquake in Chile without logging onto Tumblr.
What this study shows is not that kids are necessarily social-networking addicts, but displays that asking someone to go without a networks of blogs, friends and feeds is akin to asking a college student to go without speaking or reading the news, once upon a time. Sure, relying on Twitter is no way to hear about Chile, but a news source is a news source, no matter if it's served via 140 characters or a broadsheet. [From: University of Maryland and A Day Without Media, via: The Huffington Post]
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Subscribe to commentsmarc pickrenApr 26th 2010 11:48AM
Man, I can't imagine what those students went through during their entire day without social media. Though a lot of people still watch the 5 o'clock news in the evening, there is breaking news all day long, why wait until 5pm after your long, tiring work day to get the news, when you can get minute to minute coverage via social media.
With people's lives always on the go, we don't spend as much time connecting face to face with our family and friends, so we do so through social media, text messages, blogs, instant messages, etc. I personally like the quote one student said, "alone and secluded from my life".