Question

5 Online life is so delicious because it is socializing with almost no friction. You can share bon mots, photographs, videos, or random moments of insight, encourage- ment, solidarity, or good will. You live in a state of perpetual anticipation because the next social encounter is just a second way. You can control your badinage and click yourself away when boredom lurks. This form of social circulation takes the pressure off. I know some people who are their best selves only when they are online. Since they feel more in control of the communication, they are more communicative, less vulnerable, and carefree

6This mode of interaction nurtures mental agility. The ease of movement on the Web encourages you to skim ahead and get the gist. You do well in social media and interactive gaming when you can engage and then disengage with grace. This fast, frictionless world rewards the quick perception, the instant evaluation, and the clever performance. As the neuroscientistSusan Greenfield writes in her book Mind Change, expert, online gamers have a great capacity for short-term memory to process multiple objects simultaneously, to switch flexibly between tasks, and to process rapidly presented information

7 Offline learning, at its best, is more like being a member of a book club than a cocktail party. When you are offline, you are not in constant contact with the universe. There are periods of solitary reading and thinking and then more intentional gatherings to talk and compare. Research at the University of Oslo suggests that people read a printed page differently from the way they read off a screen. They are more linear", more intentional, and less likely to multitask or browse for key words.

8 The slowness of solitary reading or thinking means you are not as concerned with each individual piece of data. You are more concerned with how different pieces of data fit together. How does this relate tothat? You are concerned with the narrative shape, the synthesizing theory, or the overall context. You have time to see how one thing layers onto another, producing mixed emotions, ironies, and paradoxes. You have time to lose yourself in another's complex environment.

9When people in this slower world gatherto try to understand connections and context, they gravitate toward a different set of questions. These questions are less about sensation than about meaning. They argue about how events unfold and how context influences behavior. They are more likely to make moral evaluations. They want to know where it is all headed and what the ultimate ends are.

answer the question
1_ what make online experience appealing socially ?
2_ how does the writer portray offline life? pick one piece of evidence reflecting the writer's attitude toward this life
3_ According to brooks , what is missing when people interact offline ? ​

Answer 1

The online experience is appealing socially because it allows for socializing with almost no friction. People can easily share different types of content and control their interactions. It allows for a state of perpetual anticipation and nurtures mental agility, rewarding quick perception and clever performance.

The writer portrays offline life as slower and more intentional, with periods of solitary reading and thinking followed by intentional gatherings to talk and compare. One piece of evidence reflecting the writer's attitude is "The slowness of solitary reading or thinking means you are not as concerned with each individual piece of data. You are more concerned with how different pieces of data fit together. How does this relate to that?"

According to Brooks, what is missing when people interact offline is the ease of movement and control that the online world provides. People are not in constant contact with the universe, and they read differently offline, being more linear and intentional. Offline interactions tend to focus more on meaning, asking questions about how events unfold, how context influences behavior, and making moral evaluations.

~~~Harsha~~~