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The most interesting thing I’ve read in a while…

That is, if you read…

Christine Rosen is a senior editor of The New Atlantis and a resident fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. She writes extensively on the effects of technology and media on culture. Her observations are insightful and well written. The most recent essay, “Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism”, discusses the impact of the use of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook on the younger generations:

As the young woman writing in the Times admitted, “I consistently trade actual human contact for the more reliable high of smiles on MySpace, winks on Match.com, and pokes on Facebook.” That she finds these online relationships more reliable is telling: it shows a desire to avoid the vulnerability and uncertainty that true friendship entails. Real intimacy requires risk—the risk of disapproval, of heartache, of being thought a fool. Social networking websites may make relationships more reliable, but whether those relationships can be humanly satisfying remains to be seen.

I invite you to read her other essays:

• “The Image Culture” : A discussion about how communication and culture is increasingly affected by visual images alone and the decline of the the written word.
• “Ego Casting” :Rosen takes us on a James Burke style “Connections” tour from the birth of the remote control to TiVO and the hyper have-it-your-way individual’s society we live in today.