Amanda probably speaks for many of us who are swept up in the whole cyber-world as result of displacement. It can be good though, it’s how you communicate. Rather than texting brief updates about where you are and what you’re doing (twitter), things like blogs have the potential to create more thought–it’s great to get to know HOW your friend thinks. Sometimes face to face isn’t better, if you can’t get beyond shallow communication there either.

It’s easy enough to read, but certainly flip flops on itself and comes to a conclusion that I find completely false.

There is something in society that makes us lonely. This connectivity is a reaction to that not its cause. People want constant contact- and that’s assuming they do, I don’t really, I wasn’t very interested in getting a cell phone because people would be able to reach me, I’m positive I’m not the only one- because there is no quality to our relationships (and this is also NOT a universal statement, only a generalization.)

Since I’m already yapping about me I might as well state that I wasn’t particularly interested in the internet until I was separated from my family and became lonely. It was absolutely not the cause of the problem.

It is kind of interesting that I’ve read several articles, and I can’t cite anything- I don’t remember- coming to the opposite conclusions; that the ability to communicate remotely has made people antisocial, rude, unfriendly kings and queens of their own little worlds and my experience has shown this to be more true. Maybe there is some difference in the younger generation I’m not aware of.