For years critics have feared that while the Internet connected more people in networks, the new social affiliations would be less intimate and more superficial than those garnered in traditional face-to-face social discourse. But contrary to the idea that spending time in cyberspace further isolates [RETURN TO ARTICLE]
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It would be far more newsworthy if we could name a generation of youth that was not accused, by the older generation, of being narcissistic and disconnected.
agreed. internet is a hurdle in kids studies making them more social and so on. As with everything the internet and all digital sttuf do not come without their cons.
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