Refrigerator Rights

Refrigerator Rights Relationships are people who can open your refrigerator without having to ask permission. And when you are in their home you can do the same. They are people with whom you feel open, cared for and relaxed. They know the real you behind the facade.

Monday, April 16, 2007

Choosing the Internet

A newly released study at Standford University acknowledges what we already know - an increasing number of people say their personal relationships have suffered as a result of their use of the Internet with many confessing that they are discreet about their online habits. This is certainly not a surprise to anyone that follows cultural trends. Our immersion in electronic media comes at a price - and that price is almost always the decreasing amount of time we spend with other people. It is an argument to become more intentional about our social world - building Refrigerator Rights relationships. You can read about the study through this link.

posted by Dr. Will Miller @ 3:37 PM  

1 Comments:

  • At 2:06 AM, Blogger Kevin Makice said…

    It's a bit too easy to perpetuate the zero-sum claims of early studies of Internet use by presenting this as a causal relationship. These are self-disclosed statements claiming addition or blaming Internet use on offline problems after the fact. Hardly concrete. I suspect that the absence of Internet in their lives would not have saved these people their various relationship fates, since it is likely that the dynamics that contributed to their problems materialized in other areas of their lives as well.

    I am a big fan of the Fridge Rights concept and agree with a lot of what your book offers - particularly the insights on how mobility helped mess us up. Where I disagree is in the presumption that technology in general and online time specifically is the culprit.

     

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