Once addicted to a social-networking service, 27-year-old Lim Moon Hyang suddenly got tired of responding to instantaneous feedback from her online friends and realized with terror just how deep her SNS obsession ran.
¡°There was a time I was logging on to Mixi every five minutes,¡± Lim, a student in Tokyo, told The Japan Times, referring to an SNS popular with young Japanese. ¡°But I didn¡¯t really socialize with people in my real life.¡±
And so began Lim¡¯s quest for an authentic human relationship. Just as she gradually outgrew her infatuation with cyberspace, she came across an NHK documentary featuring a young couple in Osaka who listened to passersby complain about their lives.
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