Sublime

He is calling us back from the disinhibition, and accompanying lack of charity, generated by a set of technologies that allow us to converse and debate with people who are not, in the historical sense of the term, our neighbors. Technologies of communication that allow us to overcome the distances of space also allow us to neglect the common humani

John Suler

... people just aren’t meant to talk to one another this mu ch . They shouldn’t have that much to say, they shouldn’t expect to receive such a large audience for that expression, and they shouldn’t suppose a right to comment or rejoinder for every thought or notion either.

CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking; Cyberpsychology: The Journal of Psychosocial Research; and the International Journal of Cyberbehavior.

To extend McLuhan’s already stretched bodily metaphors, now that all may speak, we have moved from the age of the ear (orality) to the eye (text) and now to the mouth (networked discourse). Our challenge is to bring our abilities together in coherent conversation, informed by what we hear and ask together. For if all speak and none listen, there is