Alienating Effects of Social Media – c. 1906

… post-Victorians began to ponder the evolution of wireless telegraphy — in which individuals would receive telegraph messages, printed out on ticker tape, via personal antenna.

 

And what was their take on such innovation? Did they savor the prospect of a new age of enlightenment, empowered by ever-improving access to information and to each other?

 

Nope. Instead, they lamented what such a device would do to interpersonal intimacy — with such accuracy that it will boggle your 21st century mind. …