{"id":44065,"date":"2014-08-02T17:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-02T23:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/02\/anti-sociability-in-forced-sociability-surroundings.html"},"modified":"2014-08-03T16:35:02","modified_gmt":"2014-08-03T22:35:02","slug":"anti-sociability-in-forced-sociability-surroundings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/02\/anti-sociability-in-forced-sociability-surroundings.html","title":{"rendered":"Anti-sociability in forced-sociability surroundings"},"content":{"rendered":"
A funny pair of pictures (thanks, +<\/span>Scott Randel<\/a><\/span>), but indicative of a truth: humans may be social creatures, but force us into a social circumstance with strangers, a lot of us will choose any non-social interaction alternative.<\/p>\n

That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's the way things are. What' different about the contemporary period is that everyone is carrying around an alternative to socializing in their pocket, purse, or hip holster,\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Clearly It’s PHONES That Are Keeping Us Antisocial These Days<\/a>
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A funny pair of pictures (thanks, +Scott Randel), but indicative of a truth: humans may be social creatures, but force us into a social circumstance with strangers, a lot of us will choose any non-social interaction alternative. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it's the way things are. What' different about the contemporary period … Continue reading “Anti-sociability in forced-sociability surroundings”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-my-mobile-pda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40855,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/23\/maybe-tech-isnt-making-us-all-anti-social-jerks.html","url_meta":{"origin":44065,"position":0},"title":"Maybe tech isn't making us all anti-social jerks","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Jan-14 9:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting way of researching sociability in public places, and whether it's gone up or down over time.\ufeff Technology Is Not Driving Us Apart After All It turns out, we may be more social than we were 30 years ago \u2014 at least in public spaces. View this post on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":18568,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/14\/tweets-from-2010-09-14.html","url_meta":{"origin":44065,"position":1},"title":"Tweets from 2010-09-14","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Sep-10 11:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Fall is in the air. I wish it would freaking land already. # Just one donut won't hurt, right? Especially as part of office sociability? Right? # So #DCUO won't have crafting? No tears here. http:\/\/bit.ly\/dy3izp # Chris Cao xview on #DCUO crafting, cities, gear. I'm worried I haven't seen\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":16226,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/18\/good-questions.html","url_meta":{"origin":44065,"position":2},"title":"Good Questions","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 18-Nov-09 10:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Mary linked to (and answered) these, so, in lieu of exercising my brain too much this evening ... Why do you blog? - To remember things that have happened. To share stuff I think is cool. To present a semblance of sociability. What are your favorite blogs? - In terms\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Personal Q&A"","block_context":{"text":"Personal Q&A","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/personal\/personal-qa"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44065"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44092,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44065\/revisions\/44092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}