Weekend Reading

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on


illustration via NYT by David Chelsea

I read this piece today by Theodora Stites, a New Yorker who works in market research and seems to me to be just a bit more tuned in than others of her age, but perhaps I'm somewhat out of touch (my 21 year old engineering student son is not so Net connected - but maybe he just doesn't have the time). It's about how she is using a whole host of social networking sites.

She begins

"I'm 24 years old, have a good job, friends. But like many of my
generation, I consistently trade actual human contact for the more
reliable emotional high of smiles on MySpace, winks on Match.com and
pokes on Facebook. I live for Friendster views, profile comments and
the Dodgeball messages that clog my cellphone every night."

Check it out at "Someone To Watch Over Me (on a Google map)"

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