A nice little piece at GOOD about the dangers of lifecasting—or even obsessive blogging, like I'm doing right now.

“(Online communities) are like the crowd outside the building with the guy on the ledge,” Jeffrey Cole, a University of Southern California professor who studies technology’s effects on society, told the New York Times. “Sometimes there is someone who gets involved and tries to talk him down. Often the crowd chants, ‘Jump, jump.’ They can enable suicide or help prevent it.”

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