Is Superficiality Necessary?
Superficiality by Design When we humans created social media, we embedded superficiality into our online “community” platforms. Just like when we created social norms, we distinguished between polite and rude behaviors. And ironically, we let our social media posts...
Dialing Down on Social Media
Words Don’t Always Walk their Social Talk Social media is not very social as it is based on traditional advertising and broadcast models, which force us to “stand out” and get never ending attention and likes. And then there are all kinds of new, cool...
The Power of A Meaningful Conversation
Small Talk is Not A Conversation Isn’t it fascinating that we created practices like small talk but there is no big talk? We also created icebreakers as a natural way for us to connect. And yet, the fact that we need to label and encourage communication between...