How Social Media Changes Our Perception of Reality
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In social psychologist Kenneth Gergen’s, Ph.D., 1991 book, “The Saturated Self“, he warned of an Orwellian world where technology might saturate human beings to the point of “multiphrenia,” a fragmented version of the self that is pulled in so many directions the individual would be lost. “I am linked, therefore I am,” he famously said, playing on Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am.” Little did Dr. Gergen know how dead-on his prediction would be. Because as our society sits here more than 20 years later with our tablets and cell phones and electronic gadgets—seduced by the lure of the blue…
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