Fonte: The Daily Beast e Newsweek Magazine
Tweets,
texts, emails, posts. New research says the Internet can make us
lonely and depressed—and may even create more extreme forms of
mental illness, Tony Dokoupil reports.
Before he
launched the most viral video in Internet history, Jason Russell was
a half-hearted Web presence. His YouTube account was dead, and his
Facebook and Twitter pages were a trickle of kid pictures and
home-garden updates. The Web wasn’t made “to keep track of how
much people like us,” he thought, and when his own tech habits made
him feel like “a genius, an addict, or a megalomaniac,” he
unplugged for days, believing, as the humorist Andy Borowitz put it
in a tweet that Russell tagged as a favorite, “it’s important to
turn off our computers and do things in the real world.”
But this
past March Russell struggled to turn off anything. He forwarded a
link to “Kony 2012,” his deeply personal Web documentary about
the African warlord Joseph Kony. The idea was to use social media to
make Kony famous as the first step to stopping his crimes. And it
seemed to work: the film hurtled through cyberspace, clocking more
than 70 million views in less than a week. But something happened to
Russell in the process. The same digital tools that supported his
mission seemed to tear at his psyche, exposing him to nonstop kudos
and criticisms, and ending his arm’s-length relationship with new
media.
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