WEEK 5

Antisocial Networking?

Researchers are beginning to study the effects of social networks on children, and how it changes the development of friendships.  There are certainly views which support the use of forums such as Facebook for those children who are very shy, to help them gain more social interaction, and those which show that the nature of these friendships is changing, becoming more superficial, and less face-to-face, as traditionally seen.

As with most of the social and cultural implications of the technology age, there is not a long enough time span of data collected to be able to determine the trends.  It seems that inevitably, there will be far-ranging impacts seen in human interaction as a result of these types of media.

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