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Originally Posted by teija
Yes, but "interacting" and "socialization" are two very different things...
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You are so right. I dashed that last post off in a nostalgic moment and with an 'if you can't beat 'em, join 'em' attitude. Rereading it even makes me sad. Reminds me of a sentence written by John Steinbeck in
Travels with Charley: I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction. (possibly paraphrased, but when he gets to Seattle later in the book.)
Television did kill much neighborhood interaction along with family story and game times. But I believe that social networking sites have more positives than negatives. Time will tell. I can't lament the passing of the big chain book stores. I have recently seen several independent book stores adaptable enough to survive Borders and B&N and will survive the digital age.
Like those indie book stores, we also survive by being adaptable and not wasting precious time hand-wringing over our losses. And I'm old enough to have street cred about survival.