Help! I'm all alone!

Stereotypes with heavy Internet users include cave nerd, loners, geek, and forty-year-old virgins staying home with mom. Nothing positive.



Data supports this critical thinking. “In short, no matter how…and…which type of social activity is considered, time spent on the Internet reduces time spent in face-to-face relationships, and concomitantly increases time spent alone (Nie, Hillygus, Erbring).”



But without the Internet, we may be less likely to keep in touch with our long distance friends and forever lose them. With programs like Skype, we can keep up face to face contact.



So the key idea is go out and socialize! Spend time with your real life community.



But have some online time to your friends and you, too.



If a balance isn't maintained, then the real life community could be destroyed by the Internet.

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