RE: UKNM: 'higher levels of depression and loneliness'

[steve bridger]

>What is more concerning outside of methodological arguments is that the

>story was picked up world-wide and became another cudgel to beat the medium

>with.  Mass market interpretation of this story surely sets the whole

>education process back a few steps?


Just caught up with this discussion after the flu ...


Scott Rosenberg offers his opinions  on the Carnegie Mellon study ...


http://www.salonmagazine.com/21st/rose/1998/09/03straight.html


The BBC quoted Prof Kraut[sic] on his two-year study [God, that's

depressing ...]


"Even though people are only using the Internet socially they are giving up

something in order to do that. What they may be giving up is more authentic

social relationships in their real lives,"


I thought that we [especially teenagers - of which I am not] were

logging-on + watching less telly, rather than ignoring our friends - at

least that's what I've read.



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