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(emrah_oztas/Getty Images/iStockphoto)  The great disconnect:
Using Facebook for social distance Add to ...  When's the last
time you blocked someone on Facebook? Or groaned through another
tedious voice message from your mother? Or pretended you missed
days of texts from that irksome friend?  "You can 'process'
people as quickly as you want to," professor Sherry Turkle
writes in her new book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from
Technology and Less from Each Other.  The clinical psychologist
explores how people are using social media to manage their
relationships: "We look to the network to defend us against
loneliness even as we want it to control the intensity of our
connections," writes Dr. Turkle.  Our mobile Internet age, she
argues, has produced narcissistic "digital natives" who expect
"continuous connection," even as they shut others off when they
don't have the time or the will. M