#only disconnect

[un-honeyed]

"Information overload can bore us as easily as information under load. But this form of boredom, mediated boredom, doesn't provide time to think; it just produces a craving for more information in order to suppress it."

Only Disconnect by Evgeny Morozov 

[millionsmillions]

It has been argued that a chronic fever of distraction and fascination arrives on waves of Wi-Fi to stunt our attention spans, encouraging writers to paddle about, tweeting and liking, instead of striking out for deeper waters...

Maybe writers really do need social media. Or perhaps a detox would do all of us good. But really, the questions we should all be asking is this: would E. M. Forster have used Freedom?