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Jul 23, 2014
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved." --Mother Teresa
The Innovation of Loneliness
While our focus is shifting towards individual achievements over community, more and more people are feeling lonely. They feel vulnerable opening up to others for warm, friendly, heart-to-heart conversations. Then, along comes social media...As people share and chat from islands of isolation, filtering and massaging information, they are undermining the genuine credibility of conversation. Bits and pieces of tweets, posts and chats aren't allowing people either to open up or understand others. Are these online connections actually helping with loneliness, or they are making it worse? Could this social media activity be chipping away at your quiet time as well, when you could think and reflect? Learn more in this fast-pace, animated video based on the work of Sherry Turkle and Dr. Yair Amichal-Hamburger.
BE THE CHANGE
Create a "sacred space" for your family, like the dining room or family room, where devices and gadgets are prohibited. Take the time to talk to each other in that space.
