Really interesting series of photos here. Italian photographer Filippo Minelli used third world backdrops to put our social media usage in stark perspective in an ongoing series Contradictions. Minelli puts it best in a 2008 interview, so I won’t muck up the words:

Technologies and the marketing behind them usually push the almost religious aspect of their evolution… and the users are pushed to live in an intense way the abstraction from reality, living technologies only as an idea and sometimes without even knowing their real functions… what I want to do by writing the names of anything connected with the 2.0 life we are living in the slums of the Third World is to point out the gap between the reality we still live in and the ephemeral world of technologies.

(via Flavorwire)