https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/03/education/edlife/looking-for-intimacy-in-the-age-of-facebook.html (The article)
What does Reiner ask his students to do?
How do the students react to his request?
According to Reiner, how do texting and social media negatively affect a person?
According to Reiner, what is the consequence of striving for "social perfection"?
Reiner describes students, during class discussion, "agreeing" with each other even when they contradicted each other. He also describes how he receives well-formatted papers that contain a lot of disconnected and superficial ideas. When Reiner asked his students why they did not risk being more creative, what reason did they give him for their behavior?
What does it mean that people "reacted like addicts when separated from their cellphones"?
According to Reiner, why is texting important to his students?
What does Reiner mean when he describes texting as a "language of emotionless evasion"?
What is "the muck and mire of emotional candor"? Why does Reiner want his student to experience it?
How did students react to Reiner's texting assignment?
How much time do students spend on texting each day?
What are the consequences of excessive Facebook use?
According to Reiner, what do students spend most of their time doing on Facebook?
According to Reiner, what is the consequence of pursing "Likes" on Facebook?
According to Reiner, why do students not post messages about feeling sad on their Facebook pages?
Reiner required his students to eat alone and without any technology. What reactions did his students have to this exercise?
In his final paragraph, Reiner uses the experience of one student to characterize all young persons. How
does he characterize the current generation of twenty-year-olds?