How social networks can destroy your social lifeAn article in the New York Times caught my eye. In it, Nick Bilton, a NYT columnist, recounts a recent dinner party that he hosted, in the middle of which his phone beeped with a text message. “Hey, I see you’re having people over”, it read. “OK if I stop by?” What puzzled Mr Bilton was how this person knew he was having a dinner party.Then be looked at his guest. “Over the course of the three-hour dinner,” the poor sap eventually discovered, “my friends posted seven photos on Path, sent six Twitter messages (five with photos), six photos on Instagram and two people checked in on Foursquare. When I added up the collective followers counts of the people in the room, my little dinner party was potentially viewed by more people than watch The Late Show on CBS: over three million.” (Two of his guests have large numbers of followers on Twitter.) And, to add insult too (self-inflicted) injury, a few days later he telephoned someone in a work-related call, only to be told by the other person - who hasn never crossed his threshold - how much he “just loved” the lamps haging above the Bilton kitchen table
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