We live in both the real world and a digital world. In the digital world, we construct online personas and identities and can hide behind anonymity. However, our online and real lives are also interconnected. The digital world gives us opportunities to connect with others but may weaken our social skills. It has become difficult to balance time spent in the digital world versus the real world.

1. Our
Digital
World
photo: TF28 tfaltings.de (flickr)By: Doug McFarlane

2. We may think we live in one
world, but in reality...
we live in TWO
photo: Sweetie187 (flikr)

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There’s the world
we’re used to...
Image: Bluedharma (flickr)

4. and our alternate
digital world
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5. We use our digital world to
connect with
friends...
family....
EVERYONE
image: sullivantoph (flickr)

6. image: ideowl (flickr)
Even on the
biggest of days...

7. “For
some
couples,
Facebook
may serve
as a tool for
relationship
maintenance”
Photo: Gregory Jordan (flickr)
Quote: I Now Pronounce You FBO: Facebook Official

8. But how closely does our
digital self reflect our true
character?
image:Pig Sty Avenue (flickr)

9. In the Digital World
we construct ourselves,
and tone ourselves into what we
think people want. Photo: vancouverfilmschool☆ (flickr)

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Anonymity allows us to hide
behind our comments
Anonymity
allows us to hide
behind our com
comments on
online.
photo: raincoaster (flickr)

11. But sometimes our online lives
and our real lives cross paths...
Image from acagebee
(flikr)

12. “Technology has also allowed
us to shape who we are
and highlight specific features in ways
we couldn’t do as easily offline.”
Quote: The Social Psychology of the Selfie
Photo: Robby Mueller (flickr)

13. “We rely on others’ perceptions,
judgments and appraisals to
develop our social self.”
image: thrill kills sunday pills (flickr)
quote: The Social Psychology of the Selfie

14. And to many, the connection to
the digital world is an addiction.
image: Photo Extremist (flickr)
Staggering
numbers of
people are
connected.

15. 7/10 people in North America are
using some form of Social Media
Facebook alone has
18 million
Canadian users

16. 78% of parents sur-
veyed help their chil-
dren lie to Facebook
about age.
“78% of parents surveyed
help their children lie to Face-
book about their age.”
image: Vintuitive (flickr)
quote: Coming of Age in the Digital Age

17. Even the workplace has
switched to a heavily digitally
focused world. photo: chooyutshing (flickr)

18. Photo: Sean MacEntee (flickr)
Quote: Lecture 2
“80% of fortune 500 companies
only accept online applications”

19. image: plaits (flickr)
It has gotten to the point where
a day without connection makes
us feel naked.

20. The digital world has given us endless
opportunities, but has it debilitates our
ocial skills?
“Someday, someday, but certainly not
now, I’d like to learn how to have a
conversation.” - 16 year old boyphoto: Cubmundo (flickr)
quote: The Flight From Conversation

21. Which path will you choose?
Can there exist a balance?
photo: tonystl (flickr)

22. All images are licensed under the Creative Commons Non-Comercial Share-Alike
3.0 agreement, and sourced from flickr.
Articles used are linked below:
1) The Flight of Conversation
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-flight-from-conversation.
html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
2) The Coming of the Digital Age
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2013/02/coming-of-age-in-the-digital-age
3)The Social Psychology of the Selfie
http://mashable.com/2013/02/15/social-media-and-the-selfie/
4) I Now Pronounce You FBO: Facebook Official
http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/i-now-pronounce-you-fbo-facebook-offi-
cial-51307/