In a much talked-about essay, Peggy Orenstein has speculated that Facebook denies to young people “an opportunity for insight, for growth through loneliness”; it makes it harder for them “to establish distance from their former selves, to clear space for introspection and transformation.” Maybe it also eases — or hides from us — our displacements, and creates, etc., etc., etc.,
Oh, shut up.
Via Sullivan.
I bet people said the same things about teens and telephones in the 50s’..
And Socrates and philosophy in the 400’s.