Sherry Turkle a sociologist, says “the way in which people frantically communicate online via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook can be seen as a modern form of madness”, according to a Telegraph report.
Writing in her new book, Alone Together: “A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological.”
“We have invented inspiring and enhancing technologies, yet we have allowed them to diminish us,” she writes.
Read more at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/8276948/Social-networking-sites-are-a-modern-form-of-madness.html