Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US | Media | The Observer.
I sent this on to Leonard Sweet. I’d bet money that the academics are boomers who struggle to communicate in the digital world. For all the talk of creating isolation, I think its may be as much the growing sense of isolation by Guttenbergers (print boomer generation) and Googlers (digital natives), to use Sweet’s terms. I see it in the church and elsewhere – an acceleration of the digital world, its language, its speed of communication, and increasing complexity that is leaving even digital immigrants behind.