Continual connectivity has led to a new sensibility. People move from a way of thinking in which they say, 'I have a feeling, I want to make a call,' to one where they say, 'I want to have a feeling, I need to send a text (or post on a social network).' Social networking nurtures a way of thinking about the self in which one constitutes a feeling by sending out for comments.

— Sherry Turkle, Plazm