The recent much-hyped release of The Social Network, the semi-biopic of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, has sparked a lot of discussion about the world’s favourite social media site, and about social networking in general. Despite social networking being thoroughly entrenched in millions of lives all over the world, many smart people remain entirely unconvinced.
This week, the fantastic British author Zadie Smith wrote a thoughtful piece on The Social Network, the film as well as the phenomenon, in which she argues that social networking reduces the richness of human life and relationships. In The Atlantic, Alexis Madrigal writes an excellent response, invoking the human capacity to imagine and reinflate the information we transmit in bits and bytes.
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