Wisdom for the Constantly Connected (book)

OpenLibrary.org; Wisdom Quarterly

From going online to learning what it means to OM on Reuters, it was recently reported that we Americans are willing to go longer without friends and sex than we are to be deprived of our addiction to the Internet.

We spend more time on our computers, BlackBerrys, cell phones [mobiles], and iPods than we do with each other or even with ourselves. Using these technologies becomes a compulsive rather than intentional or creative process. Instead of increasing our productivity, multitasking is stressing us out!

Wisdom 2.0 Conference (Huff Po)

In Wisdom 2.0, Soren Gordhamer offers sound guidance to millions of people trying to find balance between using technology and staying human.

Humorous and fun, both editions provide effective, time-tested tools for reducing stress and nurturing creativity in a technology-saturated world.

Media labels "Generation C" (video)

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"No Adults Allowed" (on HBO's Mr. Show with Bob and David) and "Jeepers Creepers" (below)

Americans between the ages of 18 and 34 have been labelled with a new public relations and marketing designation.

They will now be known -- and quickly begin to call themselves -- "Generation C." The C is for "connected."



It is yet another label for Generation Y, also marketed to as Millennials, Echo Boomers, Generation Next, and Net Generation.

"I like to occupy and 'riot' then brag about it in texts, twits, and on the facebooks."

The group is being judged, categorized, and reduced to a box by its use of devices that consume media, impersonally socialize, and share experiences more than any other age group, according to the Nielsen corporation.

The theme song for the "Slacker Generation"


Statistics for the "Connected Generation"

Generation C instantly (as soon as the label was invented) makes up 23 percent of the population and represents 39 percent of smartphone users. Connected. Get used to it. You have no choice or say in the matter. The grown ups will decide what to call you and how to market to you.

A previous generation (Gen-Xers Oasis) copied a previous generation (Hippies The Who) with the song "My Generation": "People try to put us down (Talkin'bout my generation!), just because we get around. Things they do look awful cold. I hope I die before I get old."

The Big Blue Buddha Bus

Blue Buddha Bus casting a shadow on a trip to Ashland, Oregon PHOTOS

Born at the Crown Bus factory in Los Angeles, her purpose then was to transport the children of former hippies to and from school. On occasion she was used to take these same children on field trips to such places like Disneyland. She was retired a few years back and has gone some major changes inside and out, including being converted to run on 100% biodiesel fuel. The Blue Buddha Bus, as I've named her, is the flagship of an up and comping non-profit organization that travels the country promoting green technology and sustainable living techniques. More>>

Backseat passengers on the Blue Buddha Bus

What parents don't know about MySpace

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Parents of teenagers know how important texting and social networking sites like MySpace, Bebo, and Facebook are to the over-13 set. But there's a lot they don't know (U.S. News & World Report) Related

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When Facebook Rules the World

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Social networking (images.com/Corbis)

Who got fat, who got hot, and is that old crush of mine still single? Whatever happened to that weird kid with the hair? Wait, am I the one who got fat?

MySpace slashes itself by 30 percent

Such are the essential questions at the core of every high school and college reunion. For decades, the routine has remained the same: a bunch of old classmates get together and catch up, settle (or renew) grievances, and swap glory-days stories.

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Employees at work at the Palo Alto headquarters of Facebook, Inc. in March 2009. The number of minutes Americans spent on social networking sites nearly doubled in the past year with Facebook and Twitter enjoying explosive growth, according to a new study (AFP/Getty Images/File/Gilles Mingasson).

Americans spending more time on social networks

WASHINGTON (AFP) – The number of minutes Americans spent on social networking sites nearly doubled in the past year with Facebook and Twitter enjoying explosive growth, according to a new study.

Nielsen Online found that the number of minutes Americans spent on social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Blogger, Tagged, Twitter, and LinkedIn grew 83 percent from April 2008 to April of this year.

It said the total minutes spent on Facebook increased nearly 700 percent year-over-year, from 1.7 billion in April 2008 to 13.9 billion in April 2009.

Facebook was the top social networking site when ranked by total minutes for the month followed by MySpace, which saw its total minutes decline from 7.3 billion in April 2008 to 5.0 billion in April 2009. Blogger, Tagged, and Twitter were next.

The number of minutes spent on micro-blogging service Twitter skyrocketed from 7.9 million in April 2008 to 300 million in April 2009, Nielsen said. More>>

What are they?

Facebook is a free-access social networking Website operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. Users add online friends, send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify others about themselves.

The site's name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that some US colleges and prep schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. The site was originally limited to students and thus gained an advantage over its main competitor Myspace.

Mark Zuckerberg took an existing idea (social networking) and founded Facebook with his roommates, fellow computer science majors Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, while he was a student at Harvard University. More>>

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• Buddhist Social Media?

Buddhist Social Media: Facebook to Twitter

Religious Uses of Social Media
Laura Busch

There are a number of Buddhist uses of social media that fit within the contemplative/monastic traditions. Probably the most famous is the work at Zen Mountain Monastery, which hosts its own communications center: dharma.net.

They have an online radio station, store, and are working on a "cybermonastery" where, last I heard, they would put up teachings and have a question and answer service.

There is a Buddhist monk on Twitter who sends out daily messages: twitter.com/buddhistmonk

You can also find a list of other Buddhist twitter users here: lodenjinpa.com/buddhists-on-twitter.

I have also observed monastics on Web forums discussing guided meditation practices with other forum members via chat using texts and images from the Web to guide the practice. (There are a great deal of Buddhist texts online in multiple languages).

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• Buddhism on Facebook: wildmind.org/tag/social-media
• Search: Buddhist+social+media