If you watch movies or read novels or simply understand the drama that is the human condition, you know that human behavior is often shrouded in mystery. Why we do what we do, how we act and what we think about at four AM, are at the heart of what make us who we are, and in fact what makes us interesting.
On the other hand, if we reveal everything about ourselves; if Facebook, and LinkedIn and social networks in general track our every move, our every action, where is the mystery? If every thought is posted, or tweeted, or shared, then where is the human discovery? If we forget that we are more than the sum total of our data points, then
Andrew Keene is here to remind us. Keen argues in his new work
Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution Is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us
, that the social network may be weakening, not building up our relationships.
My conversation with Andrew Keen:
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