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Anti-Social Networking

First used in March 2010 via a photographic essay by Gary Gumanow Anti-Social Networking photo setAnti-Social Networking

Term used to describe the degradation of face to face human interaction of people in close physical proximity, while communicating via smartphone using voice, social media or texting. It is an anti-social behavior exhibited to those people or physical environment.

Many questions are raised by the use of social networking...

Are social networking bringing us closer together as humans? Social networking sites like FaceBook have made it easier to stay in touch with people from our past. It has given us access to people around the world with similar interests. It has provided a means for disseminating events as they are happening. So, in a sense, it has brought us closer on a global basis.

I would assert that social networking is having an impact on our personal face-to-face social networking. People are now more interested with people they have never met. How many times have I been out to dinner with my wife and have checked in to show my friends where I'm eating, or what music I'm listening too?

We used to talk with people in our communities. We are now turning into a world in which we care more about communities far a beyond those around us.

Social networks are here to stay, and I'm grateful for sites like Flickr and FaceBook, but they should not replace those we live in.