An article in 2¢ Worth: Is Starbucks Killing Community?, David Warlick speaks of what Starbucks has done to take advantage of our community.
Starbucks is not just a simple coffee store anymore, it has upgraded to become a worldwide social network, much like the internet. In fact, Starbucks offers free WiFi connection from the store to lure more customers in.
Now, people walk into a Starbucks restaurant to talk and do other social things. As Warlick explains in his article, “I find it too easy and appealing to connect exclusively to people who agree with my world view. Engaging in conversations within like-minded communities might even lead me to feel so passionately about my positions that I could become less sensitive to the positions of others on the occasions that I find myself in contact with them, behaving with less civility than I should.”
He then concludes that the problem with all this is not WiFi nor Starbucks, the problem is that we simply cannot embrace the fact that nothing is simple.
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