Isolation and the Social Media Revolution

We all have lived through a few revolutions.  About the time we got our heads around Marshall McLuhan's premise of a Global Village, the reality is now  larger than life itself.  How then, can a person feel so isolated when the entire world and almost everything that has been discovered or learned, is right in front of our noses? 

The pioneering thinker about the media, Marshall McLuhan, coined the term, "the global village" in the 1960s to express his belief that electronic communication would unite the world. The advent of the internet over the past 10 years has paralleled the emergence of globalisation as a concept. Proponents and critics of globalisation have very different perspectives on the internet’s role.

To counteract isolation, the amazing social media have sought to plug into this lonely congregation; the creators of it become incredibly wealthy, it serves the needs for connection, while leading to more isolation and lack of personal contact. I think that talking face to face about an idea, with exploration of it from many angles, and listening politely to a different perspective without expecting the other face to agree, or your face to fall into dismay, amazement,  or rage, is a lost art.