I have great respect for Mr. Wright but I think based on his critique, books have the potential to be far more dehumanizing than online communications. I would love to hear him apply his critique to the literary world.

Great video!

Hi Bill, I agree with you; our tendency to misuse the medium is very real. I also wonder though if the critique is really in how we use it and not just in online communication as a platform itself.

Sounds like a question for Neil Postman.

-shalom!

I disagree with Bishop Wright on a number of issues:

First, he assumes that people who blog or use social media don't have any other form of social interaction like work or school.

Second, he uses email and texting, but thinks the newer technology is bad? People said the same things about email and the Internet being socially isolating in the early 1990s, and they said the same thing about the telephone in the early 1900s, but we've since discarded those POVs.

There is always some naysayer who decries the latest technology, but has also admitted to never using it. As someone who is a professional blogger and social media consultant, I can tell you that these technologies are no more socially limiting than any of the other communication technologies we've created in the last 100 years.

The tendency to misuse the medium is there, but there is a tendency to misuse ANYTHING, technological or otherwise. But don't recommend against it for everyone just because a few people use it incorrectly.