MYTH BUSTED: Internet Use Doesn’t Lead to Isolation

Courtesy Mashable!  Thu, 11/05/2009 - 03:54

women_internet_laptopImagine this: once a happy child with a lot of friends, little Jack has started spending many hours per day on social networking sites such as Facebook, which has turned him into a pale asocial freak.

Oh, if only he’d never touched that cursed box we call the computer, he’d be a healthy young man now!

This is the picture we’ve been fed a lot by the media (did you see the movie Gamer? I rest my...


 

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