Take That, Mom: We Should Talk To Strangers After All

Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 20:30 in Psychology & Sociology

An anthropological wave has taken place, first in Asia that has now spread worldwide - humans, the most social species on the planet, have begun to gather in groups and ignore each other while communicating wirelessly with people doing the same ignoring of real people elsewhere.The trend of sitting inches away on a train from other people and routinely ignoring each other while using social media is a social paradox. Why can such social agents be so antisocial? read more

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