ESCP Europe

Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of twitter and facebook friends and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. The author argues this relentless connection leads to a new solitude. Alone together is the result of author's nearly fifteen-year exploration of our lives on the digital terrain. The text describes new unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, parents, and children, and new instabilities in how privacy and community, intimacy, and solitude are understood.