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Related: About this forumIs #SocialMedia Ruining Our Culture?
Thom Hartmann talks to caller Susan, who says social media and cell phones are ruinging our culture!
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Is #SocialMedia Ruining Our Culture? (Original Post)
thomhartmann
May 2016
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zeemike
(18,998 posts)1. I see it all the time.
Because I don't have a cell phone and do not use social media.
People walking around with their eyes fixed on their cell phone never looking around.
It's weird IMO.
haikugal
(6,476 posts)2. What 'culture' would that be exactly?
Nay
(12,051 posts)3. Exactly. What culture would we be talking about? The commercial culture,
which has turned us all into shopping automatons already, each out for himself? Or the bragging macho culture? Or the dolled-up hooker culture? Hard to decide which one is the worst.