There, I said it. I’m a slacktivist. Now, let me explain.
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Hi. My name is Debra, and I’m a slacktivist…
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The loneliness crisis in a (dis)connected world
“Wait, are you serious?”, my husband responded to my sharing the news that the UK just appointed a Minister of Loneliness. When it comes to the subject of loneliness, many are indeed serious, as the “looming loneliness crisis” is cutting a wide swath, regardless of age or income. As a public, we should be concerned about social connection, given that we are living in the most technologically connected age in history, and yet rates of loneliness have doubled since the 1980’s. Why is this?
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Where is the love?
A few weeks before Christmas, Black Eyed Peas’ original “Where is the Love?” came on the radio in a moment of serendipity, as I was reflecting on the state of our world. With the news so full of hateful rhetoric, brutality, greed and protectionism, yes, where is the love? Continue reading “Where is the love?”
Maybe we need to thank Facebook, Trump and the Russians
Ten years into the “smartphone experiment”, and we seem to be reaching a tipping point. Just this week, we saw two major Apple investors write an open letter challenging Apple over concerns that device-usage habits are harming children’s developing brains. Then two days later, the Globe and Mail ran an alarming, evidence-based article on how smartphones are making us stupid, antisocial and unhealthy. But what is all of this technology (ab)use doing to the health of our society? Continue reading “Maybe we need to thank Facebook, Trump and the Russians”