Isolating yet relaxing
An extremely interesting article from the CBC on internet use; a couple of points occur to me, though.
Given the wide variety of what you can do online, should "heavy use" really start at an hour a day?
As the article sort acknowledges, these heavy users both have the same number of close friendships and relationships as non users, and although they may spend more time "alone," it's often while interacting with other people.
Basically, if you're going to be some sort of loner, it's probably healthier to be spending time online (within reason, of course) than it is to be watching TV and rocking back and forth. I like the article and its reasonable tone, I'm just a little worried somebody is going to run with a couple parts of it in an irresponsible direction.
Given the wide variety of what you can do online, should "heavy use" really start at an hour a day?
As the article sort acknowledges, these heavy users both have the same number of close friendships and relationships as non users, and although they may spend more time "alone," it's often while interacting with other people.
Basically, if you're going to be some sort of loner, it's probably healthier to be spending time online (within reason, of course) than it is to be watching TV and rocking back and forth. I like the article and its reasonable tone, I'm just a little worried somebody is going to run with a couple parts of it in an irresponsible direction.
