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University Bans Social Media for a Week
- JohnnyBrown 16y agoUniversity officials were banned from using (fossil fuels | artificially hydrogenated lipids | fax machines) for a week. "we just wanted them to see the impact these technologies have on their lives."
- ENOTTY 16y agoThis brings back memories of trying to find open proxies in high school and middle school. Hopefully these college students will be as enterprising.
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- dRother 16y agoOh no, you mean they have to go to Starbucks or something?
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- dlnovell 16y agoI think 24 hours would be long enough to get the point across. I expect 100% of the students at that university will find other access during the week, but if he kept it to a length that the ADD addled brains of college students could possibly have a chance of withstanding I think he'd have much better results. Interesting idea though.
- nanairo 16y agoYep, I think it won't work either (too many holes in their ban). However I would have really wished for the University to use this chance to carry a proper experiment, gathering data, analysing them, etc. They are a university, after all! They got a chance to study the effect of the ban on people's activities and behaviour... why not try to collect some data? It may be useless and too noisy, but still.