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Building an app to deepen relationships we have with people.
Sherry Turkle's talk really moved us, and two friends and I decided to do something about it:
Technology and social innovation has been focused on increasing the quantity of interactions and the quantity of the people you interact with.
We need to spend less time reading and liking statuses online and more time with our people in real life.
Why? Because for relationships to blossom we need to have real life interactions. So we decided to build something to make them better and simpler.
We are starting to build a mobile app whose sole purpose is to have a real life interaction with people you already know and that you want to see!
This is not a spammy thread to promote the app, because the app doesn't exist yet. We just want to meet and share with people that share the vision and wanting to be a part of it! Ping us on http://bit.ly/TEDpeople
Is a mobile app that facilitate face-to-face interactions (so we can increase the quality of relationships we have with people) something you'd love to see?
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Theodore A. Hoppe 200+
"Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. And when we do, one of the things that can happen is that we sacrifice conversation for mere connection. We short-change ourselves. And over time, we seem to forget this, or we seem to stop caring."
Loneliness is a much deeper feeling, it can be about being alone in the crowd. It is a sense of being understood, cared about, and belonging. That requires a level of intimacy technology does not establish, but it might be able to sustain. Whether the technology is even available to the most vulnerable is also a concern as well.
What is the value of a hug, or its effect of on the body? Can technology really turn off the cortisol and turn on the oxytocin in our brains.
"Reach out and touch someone," was advertising slogan from awhile back. Unless an APP can lead to the promise of face to face interaction, this is what we crave, what's the point ?
Hugo Amsellem