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Miscellaneous websites. Notable websites. Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - Stephen Marche. Yvette Vickers, a former Playboy playmate and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, would have been 83 last August, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died.
According to the Los Angeles coroner’s report, she lay dead for the better part of a year before a neighbor and fellow actress, a woman named Susan Savage, noticed cobwebs and yellowing letters in her mailbox, reached through a broken window to unlock the door, and pushed her way through the piles of junk mail and mounds of clothing that barricaded the house. Upstairs, she found Vickers’s body, mummified, near a heater that was still running. Her computer was on too, its glow permeating the empty space. The Los Angeles Times posted a story headlined “Mummified Body of Former Playboy Playmate Yvette Vickers Found in Her Benedict Canyon Home,” which quickly went viral. Also see: Live Chat With Stephen Marche The author will be online at 3 p.m.
Don't Blame Social Media if Your Teen Is Unsocial. It's Your Fault. Ben Wiseman Are teenagers losing their social skills? Parents and pundits seem to think so. Teens spend so much time online, we’re told, that they’re no longer able to handle the messy, intimate task of hanging out face-to-face. “After school, my son is on Facebook with his friends. If it isn’t online, it isn’t real to him,” one mother recently told me in a panic. Now, I’m not convinced this trend is real.
If kids can’t socialize, who should parents blame? What she has found, over and over, is that teenagers would love to socialize face-to-face with their friends. It’s true. ‘Teens aren’t addicted to social media. The result, Boyd discovered, is that today’s teens have neither the time nor the freedom to hang out. Forget the empathy problem—these kids crave seeing friends in person. In fact, Boyd found that many high school students flock to football games not because they like football but because they can meet in an unstructured context.
Generation Why? by Zadie Smith. The Social Network a film directed by David Fincher, with a screenplay by Aaron Sorkin You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto by Jaron Lanier Knopf, 209 pp., $24.95 How long is a generation these days? At the time, though, I felt distant from Zuckerberg and all the kids at Harvard. In The Social Network Generation Facebook gets a movie almost worthy of them, and this fact, being so unexpected, makes the film feel more delightful than it probably, objectively, is. But something is not right with this young man: his eye contact is patchy; he doesn’t seem to understand common turns of phrase or ambiguities of language; he is literal to the point of offense, pedantic to the point of aggression. ERICA: I have to go study. MARK: You don’t have to study. ERICA: How do you know I don’t have to study?!
MARK: Because you go to B.U.! Simply put, he is a computer nerd, a social “autistic”: a type as recognizable to Fincher’s audience as the cynical newshound was to Howard Hawks’s. With rucksack, naturally. Slave to technology.