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Graphic Life: A Summer without Social Media

On June 1, Patton Oswalt declared a break from social media for the summer. We considered what a day would be like without living it through our smartphone apps.

By Editorial July 3, 2014 at 4:36 pm

On June 1, NoVA native Patton Oswalt declared a break from social media for the summer, posting on Facebook: “I’ve aggressively re-wired my own brain to live and die in a 140 character jungle.” We considered what a day would be like without living it through our smartphone apps, or, as Oswalt put it, “a portal to a shadow planet in my right hand.”

 

A Summer Without Social Media

 

(July 2014)

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