Is
The Web Isolating You? -
Stanford Study Says
"Yes" - It made
headlines several weeks ago:
Researchers at Stanford
University's SIQSS (Stanford
Institute for the Quantitative
Study of Society) conducted a
national survey of Web users that
led the researchers to the
following conclusions: "The
more hours people use the
Internet, the less time they spend
with real human beings. ... The
Internet could be the ultimate
isolating technology that reduces
our participation in communities
even more than television did. ...
This is an early trend that, as a
society, we really need to monitor
carefully..."
