{"id":5047,"date":"2013-12-10T06:30:42","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rachelmariestone\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2013-12-10T06:30:42","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T10:30:42","slug":"how-social-media-are-like-willy-wonkas-gum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rachelmariestone\/2013\/12\/10\/how-social-media-are-like-willy-wonkas-gum\/","title":{"rendered":"How Social Media Are Like Willy Wonka’s Gum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Just 10 or 20 years ago, I could not have imagined how easily I could use social media\u2014and applications like Skype and Facetime\u2014to stay in touch with people on the other side of the globe. Decades ago, I wrote letters to missionaries on onionskin paper to keep the mailing weight low. Today, I send and receive such letters with the touch of a button. I can find and purchase obscure movies and books without leaving my chair. The Internet has changed everything. We can have almost anything we want.<\/p>\n

Those who\u2019ve read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/em>\u2014or who\u2019ve seen the popular film adaptations\u2014may remember that the gum experiment doesn\u2019t end so well. Greedy Violet Beauregarde is so grasping and eager that she doesn\u2019t bother to listen to Mr. Wonka\u2019s warning (it\u2019s \u201cnot quite right <\/em>yet\u201d) and chews away, turning herself into a giant blueberry at the end of the otherwise delicious gum-meal. I wonder if social media are something like that gum: satisfying to a point, but also harmful in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n

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Moving beyond the meal metaphor to actual meals for a moment, it occurs to me that while many different studies have indicated the importance of eating meals with others to our physical, emotional, and social well-being\u2014and especially that of children\u2014we often interrupt those meals by interacting with people who aren\u2019t physically in the room.<\/p>\n

{Taken from my most recent post at her.meneutics, which you can read here.<\/a>}<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just 10 or 20 years ago, I could not have imagined how easily I could use social media\u2014and applications like Skype and Facetime\u2014to stay in touch with people on the other side of the globe. Decades ago, I wrote letters to missionaries on onionskin paper to keep the mailing weight low. 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