Dan wrote a while ago about some of the pitfalls of social networking. Stephen Dubner of Freakonomics fame is apparently curious about the debate as well, and polled several researchers in this area for their responses to this question:
Has social networking technology (blog-friendly phones, Facebook, Twitter, etc.) made us better or worse off as a society, either from an economic, psychological, or sociological perspective?
Click through the see their responses. Very interesting.
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- "Invisibility: A Violation of the Social (Networking) Contract?", posted by Jarred on February 25, 2008
- "Facebook Chat: Social Networking Comes Home", posted by Jarred on April 15, 2008
- "Questioning Things: Vol. IX", posted by Jarred on July 11, 2008
- "Breaking: Facebook, Plaxo, and Google Endorse Data Portability", posted by Jarred on January 8, 2008
- "Who Owns the Social Graph?", posted by Jarred on January 5, 2008