Great podcast interview with the Economist‘s Andreas Kluth contrasting social media and the communication around the campfire.
“We were all awkward as teenagers … if I had had already Facebook and such media available to me I would have probably been completely impossible to talk to now. Because of course, there is a certain brain exercise involved in communicating face to face: cues and voice and body language and so forth. Knowing not when to interrupt someone.”
From way back at the end of oh-7, and still a great listen.
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Thanks for digging that up.
It’s over a year old now….
Andreas, thanks for the note! I was reminded of your interview when a friend was relating something he read about Facebook becoming an anti-social media. I think it was a reference to the Facebook app for movie “How To Lose Friends and Alienate People” (as described at the Telegraph).
Great to know about that app!
Incidentally, I did another “Facebooky” piece in this year’s issue of The World In 2009 (you were linking to The World in 2008), which also has a podcast with it. Probably nothing new, though.
Oh great! I have not caught that one yet, I will have to check it out.