{"id":1739,"date":"2009-11-04T13:28:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T18:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsroundup.com\/wp\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2009-11-04T20:20:01","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T01:20:01","slug":"technology-and-social-interactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=1739","title":{"rendered":"Technology and &#8230; &#8220;social interactions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I need to re-read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/03\/opinion\/03brooks.html\" target=\"_blank\">this NYTimes piece<\/a> by David Brooks a couple times and ponder but I found myself nodding a lot&#8230;  Your mileage may vary.  Perhaps according to the text messaging plan you have on your phone&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Once upon a time \u2014 in what we might think of as the \u201cHappy Days\u201d era \u2014 courtship was governed by a set of guardrails. Potential partners generally met within the context of larger social institutions: neighborhoods, schools, workplaces and families. There were certain accepted social scripts. The purpose of these scripts \u2014 dating, going steady, delaying sex \u2014 was to guide young people on the path from short-term desire to long-term commitment.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few decades, these social scripts became obsolete. They didn\u2019t fit the post-feminist era. So the search was on for more enlightened courtship rules. You would expect a dynamic society to come up with appropriate scripts. But technology has made this extremely difficult. Etiquette is all about obstacles and restraint. But technology, especially cellphone and texting technology, dissolves obstacles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I need to re-read this NYTimes piece by David Brooks a couple times and ponder but I found myself nodding a lot&#8230; Your mileage may vary. Perhaps according to the text messaging plan you have on your phone&#8230; Once upon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=1739\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[28],"tags":[528],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-neighborhood","tag-in-the-neighborhood"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-s3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}