[Web4lib] The end of MySpace, SecondLife, and Twitter

[Bill Drew]

Too much time wondering about how other people are spending their time.

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On 6/21/07, michael.yunkin at unlv.edu <michael.yunkin at unlv.edu> wrote:
>
> tracey wrote on 06/21/2007 10:39:23 AM:
>
> > I'd like someone (or maybe I will when I get a chance) to think
> > about correlating ties between those that spend a lot of time on SL
> > and other avatar-based "games" with how much attention is paid to
> > quality of life things in the physical world. Escapism is fine (we
> > all do it to a certain extent in different ways), but I think the
> > disconnect she talks about is growing larger
>
>
> I've heard people say precisely these things about:
> * spending too much time on MySpace
> * spending too much time online in general
> * spending too much time listening to music (first with walkmans, now with
> iPods)
> * spending too much time watching television
> * spending too much time reading books
>
> -Michael
>
>
>
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