Comments on: When Connectivity Breeds Loneliness http://www.soulshelter.com/technology-vs-the-soul/when-connectivity-breeds-loneliness/ Live. Work. Thrive. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:59:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Baboon http://www.soulshelter.com/technology-vs-the-soul/when-connectivity-breeds-loneliness/comment-page-1/#comment-3894 Baboon Sat, 19 Nov 2011 11:43:31 +0000 http://www.soulshelter.com/?p=1098#comment-3894 I thought that I am the only person in the world that feeling this way and I was totally surprised to learn that I am not alone. I was sad to read about your post about your <a href="//lonelyloneliness.org/" rel="nofollow">lonely</a> and I really wish to help other people too because your post really reminds me of me. It is okay to feel lonely sometimes because we are just a human and we really need someone to share our feelings sometimes. They could try to connect to people around them. There are actually a lot of people like us that need each other. Let’s just support each other and be true friends to each other. First step is always difficult but I did it anyway. I hope other lonely people out there will do the same too. I thought that I am the only person in the world that feeling this way and I was totally surprised to learn that I am not alone. I was sad to read about your post about your lonely and I really wish to help other people too because your post really reminds me of me. It is okay to feel lonely sometimes because we are just a human and we really need someone to share our feelings sometimes. They could try to connect to people around them. There are actually a lot of people like us that need each other. Let’s just support each other and be true friends to each other. First step is always difficult but I did it anyway. I hope other lonely people out there will do the same too.

]]> By: by Tim http://www.soulshelter.com/technology-vs-the-soul/when-connectivity-breeds-loneliness/comment-page-1/#comment-1773 by Tim Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:45:40 +0000 http://www.soulshelter.com/?p=1098#comment-1773 Your comment really hits home, especially the part about maintaining a competitive career edge. "Keeping up" Web or blogwise is essential to more and more occupations these days, but at what price? Look for Birkerts online and you can't find him, because he walks the talk. That means his ideas won't live on in an electronic age -- just when they're most needed. Your comment really hits home, especially the part about maintaining a competitive career edge. “Keeping up” Web or blogwise is essential to more and more occupations these days, but at what price?

Look for Birkerts online and you can’t find him, because he walks the talk. That means his ideas won’t live on in an electronic age — just when they’re most needed.

]]> By: Hank http://www.soulshelter.com/technology-vs-the-soul/when-connectivity-breeds-loneliness/comment-page-1/#comment-1755 Hank Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:19:08 +0000 http://www.soulshelter.com/?p=1098#comment-1755 This theme could--and should--be explored exhaustively for years to come. I've recently circled back to one of your amazing <a href="http://www.soulshelter.com/2009/01/18/is-the-internet-dangerous-part-one/" rel="nofollow">book recommendations</a>, The Guttenberg Ellegies by Sven Birkerts. Among the many passages that support your thesis, this one stuck out for me tonight: "The explosion of data--along with general societal secularization and the collapse of what the theorists call the "master narratives" (Christian, Marxist, Freudian, humanist...)--has all but destroyed the premise of understandability. As useful as our technological advances have been, I'm finding myself filled with a visceral loathing of the Twitter-obsessed, narcissistic mobs who force themselves into every available free cycle of our attention. I am more aware than ever that the great data explosion I have been navigating through, especially as it pertains to maintaining a competitive edge in my career, has made it more difficult than ever to hang on to my personal "master narrative," without which I cannot forge forward with any degree of confidence, coherence, or hope. If the psychic toll of staying plugged in causes soul atrophy, I'm putting a stake in the ground and saying "no." This theme could–and should–be explored exhaustively for years to come. I’ve recently circled back to one of your amazing book recommendations, The Guttenberg Ellegies by Sven Birkerts. Among the many passages that support your thesis, this one stuck out for me tonight:
“The explosion of data–along with general societal secularization and the collapse of what the theorists call the “master narratives” (Christian, Marxist, Freudian, humanist…)–has all but destroyed the premise of understandability.
As useful as our technological advances have been, I’m finding myself filled with a visceral loathing of the Twitter-obsessed, narcissistic mobs who force themselves into every available free cycle of our attention.
I am more aware than ever that the great data explosion I have been navigating through, especially as it pertains to maintaining a competitive edge in my career, has made it more difficult than ever to hang on to my personal “master narrative,” without which I cannot forge forward with any degree of confidence, coherence, or hope. If the psychic toll of staying plugged in causes soul atrophy, I’m putting a stake in the ground and saying “no.”

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