419. Extend Your Attention Span with Gloria Mark
Future Squared with Steve Glaveski
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Is There a Social Capital in Email?
We are social creatures and we have these very basic human social natures. We seek social rewards and social media provides us with that. Email does too. Some people who put a lot of importance into their online identity can spend a lot of time on social media just nurturing that identity, maintaining it. There are so many aspects of our social natures that also are involved in detracting us from that. It keeps us glued to email. Another aspect of it is identity. This can distract us really quite a bit.
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