Hey, Jewschoolers.  Check out my piece in Sh’ma Journal considering the consequences for community building and relationship nurturing of social media and virtual life.  I’ll tease it here, and you can click on the link to read the rest on Sh’ma.
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People are more mobile than ever; communities and jobs are more fluid, and relationships are taking on new shapes. While we are more globally connected, we are feeling ever more alienated and desperate for rootedness, connection, and community. For those of us in the expanding Zeitgeist of virtual communities, a number of questions require consideration:

• How do people retain both their deep connections and the casual ones that enable the migration of ideas?
• How do virtual communities affect our humanity and relationships?
• Is commitment to physical place important?
• What do we gain and what do we lose through so much mobility?