Feb 19--eDETOX

How addicted are you to the electronic world we live in?

Giorgio Ungania and I had a great chat and then you jumped in.

What triggers email addiction?

http://email.about.com/library/weekly/aa120897a.htm

Email allows us to escape the vale of tears life is. Here we can act emotionally, too. We can break conventions. Email is a very personal means of communication. We can love. We can hate. (It seems) we are loved. If we are hated, we just put the offender in our killfile.

And all that we do more or less anonymously. (Unfortunately my picture is featured rather prominently here so I'm not so prone to being loved...pitied rather.) Since it's anonymous, we can be who we want to be, we can fool the world and our selves. I guess a very interesting question in that respect is why we cannot be what we want to be in the "real" world.

Hmm.

Let's try to anyways. Let's get addicted to a real world with real people with real eyes and real ears and real hands and real email addresses.

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