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Has technology made you more social/less social?
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: The bottom of Cloud City
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Years ago there was all this worry that with computers and cellphones people would spend less time interacting with one another and just sitting at home.
I have found that with computers I am 10x more social than before. You?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2004
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I went from anti-social to merely unsocial, so I guess I'm movin' up.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Aug 2005
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At home: I'm about the same.
At work: I'm less social. I simply don't need to be... I can email our groups information... no need to call. We have telecommuters... (my boss lives 1000+ miles away... and we communicate via email and IM most of the time and by phone when needed).
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Rochester, NY
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Go away, I'm busy! 
Just kidding. Technology has let me keep in touch with distant friends more easily, but reduces my daily social interaction with people who live near me. Then again, having a kid has had a bigger negative impact on my social interaction with people over the age of 2. 
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: Your Anus
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I'm less social, but I think it has more to do with my age then with technology.
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My sig is 1 pixel too big.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Ellicott City, MD
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Neither. Use technology when necessary, and use traditional method when proper.
Having said that... I was talking to a co-worker all day yesterday via IM .. it wasn't 'till 3pm that I actually saw her. Kinda weird - especially when she's right next door.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Philadelphia
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Perhaps a fourth option:
4 - Technology has had no effect my social life.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2001
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More social. Entire groups of friends can communicate about an event at the same time via email, rather than in 50 different conversations.
When I have parties I can easily fire off a quick email to a few hundred people to let them know it's on, even if it's a last minute thing.
Instant messaging can (at times) be a lot quicker, again to communicate with multiple people at the same time.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Boston, MA
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Technology has made me more social. It has allowed me to meet a fantastic lady like Cody. Feel honored to have her as a friend. 
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." Winston Churchill
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Miami Beach
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Originally Posted by macroy
Having said that... I was talking to a co-worker all day yesterday via IM .. it wasn't 'till 3pm that I actually saw her. Kinda weird - especially when she's right next door.
She sounds hot.
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