[texas booster]

Maybe these young people will one day learn that death is common to all, and that there is an eternal soul.

[Pontiac]

But it strikes me as something bad, this interconnection we have now through the Internet. We’ve never been more “connected,” but it seems to have disconnected us in an important way.

I believe that humans like most territorial creatures are wired for immediate feedback and through learned behavior expected feedback.

Children learn (are socialized) through interactions with adults what is acceptable behavior. Polite behavior is not hereditary.

Facebook and the internet in general removes that immediate feedback or at least we have not learned to expect feedback

Computers and the internet has isolated and impersonalized our interactions. It has created internet bravado. “You can’t touch me; you don’t even know who I am, so I can say whatever I want”

The internet is a totally alien environment for humans and it may take generations to work out how we properly interact in that environment (if we ever do).

[MortMan]

Although not entirely on-point, I offer this observation (which I think is original):

Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.