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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Is social networking inherently anti-social?

The New York Times has an interesting article on the implications for kids of the growth of social network. If your kids text and chat online more than they use the phone or see their friends in person, is technology bringing them together, or driving them apart? The article notes how anti-social kids can use technology to communicate when they might not otherwise, thus bringing them out of their shells. But it also notes that if you spend most of your time communicating with someone via technology, do you lose the ability to size people up in person? And, are some kids now less interested in going out and meeting people as a result of technology - is it making it harder, or more uncomfortable, to meet people in person?

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