Technology+and+Today's+Culture

One of the major themes of CS271 is how technology affects today's culture. In recent years societies in industrialized nations have become increasingly //**on-demand**.// In other words we've fallen into a cycle of "we want, what we want, and we want it now." This phenomena has triggered the evolution of smart phones, social networking, and user generated video sites like You Tube. This page will be a place to examine the benefits/dangers of technology's integration into these new types of society and relate them to the themes in Howard Reingold's book //Smart Mobs.// Here you will find interesting links to a bigger picture of how technological advances have changed people's interactions with not only technology, but each other as well.

Facebook reports that the site has more than 400 million active users across the globe, but as the social networking site becomes larger more of these users are logging off. This article discusses the driving forces behind why people are trying to escape social networking sites, a website which effectively kills deserted Facebook and Twitter accounts, and how new software can help users ditch their so called "friends" and get back to the real world.
 * [|USA TODAY: Some Ditch Social Networks to Reclaim Time, Privacy]**