What makes life meaningful? Today in my Media and Politics class the professor pointed out that media is mass when people turn to it for meaning in their lives rather than to their community. In essence the media has become a lot of people's artificial community. We are often engaged in communities, like those on Facebook and Twitter that can not be replicated in real time and space.
I'd argue that while media has made our lives a lot easier it was never meant to make us less connected to reality. The reason we created computer technology was to gain time. That time instead has been booked up fuller than our lives were without these new technologies.
So in my new space I've made it my goal to interact with my neighbors. This is a little scary I have to admit. But I'm taking it a little at a time.
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