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Do We Communicate Too Much?

With e mail, Facebook,Twitter, Linked-In, Pinterest, and other social media at our finger tips, communication levels are off the charts. We spend massive amounts of time communicating about our lives and less time living them. Does too much trivial gratuitous communication leave you feeling strangely empty and unsatisfied?

Our lives are becoming more sedentary and over-communication makes the problem worse. Sedentary living reduces the physical and emotional quality of our lives. It gives us a chronic cases of the "blahs," as well as shortening our lives.

In the the words of James Brown, " Get up offa that thing, and dance and you'll feel better"
We need to walk the walk a little more and text the text a little less. Am I right or am I wrong?

Play the video to see if your neighbors feel we have reach a point of diminishing returns in terms of the social media communication boom.

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