Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

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The social media sites is changing the concept of relationship between people, from a close relationship to wide and weak relationship, as it becomes possible to know every little things happening to other people.
The social media sites give people 'ambient awareness' and thus make it possible to keep in touch with every acquaintances, as people can know everything about other people even before they talk about it.
As people uploads every little things of themselves in social media sites, people now can have much more knowledge about their acquaintances and thus they can keep in contact with all the people.
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He made news feed to make people able to keep up with their other friends' news without actively surfing for them. It greatly expanded the attention span, as it shows everything that we would have never searched actively. I think it's a bad thing for literacy, because it actually decreases our ability to think deep.
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Ambient awareness is knowing every little things happening to other people. I experience ambient experience through the Facebook news feed.
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Ambient awareness gives little information about the person, but tons of those little information makes up a portrait of the actual person. It can spread my emotional energy to know every little things, but it helps me to solve problems that cannot be solved by my own.
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"Monday sucks", "I'm going church", etc
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It suggests the question, is 'skimming' a real activity of using 'literacy'? Or, is 'skimming' now becoming a new inevitable ability for 'literacy'?
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"weak ties" greatly expands the number of acquaintances, however, the number of close friends does not change. This new relationship either can help or hurt us.
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Because people who are not close to them anymore continues to upload things about them, and they can never disconnect the connection.
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This article defines literacy as an ability to communicate with other people and obtain valuable information from thousands of insignificant information. It doesn't change my own definition of literacy, which is an ability to think beneath the surface of the sentence.