Quote

"The popular mythos tells us that network are powerful, global, fast,and
inexpensive. It’s the place to meet friends and carry on business.There, you'll
find entertainment, expertise, and education. In short,it's important to be
online. It ain't necessarily so. Our networks canbe frustrating, expensive,
unreliable connections that get in the way of useful work. It is an overpromoted,
hollow world, devoid of warmth andhuman kindness." pg233

= Quote sent to me by Gavin.

It's interesting to think about the fact in how far social networking takes time away from day to day social activities. Sure, you stay in contact with people you barely see and you know what they are up to. But by spending time online you have to spread your available time over a lot more people. Does day to day social activity suffer from this?

This can lead to interesting questions for the questionnaire:

- How many times do you check your account?
- How long do you usually stay on these sites? (this questions is better answered by consulting internet activity tracking companies - need to be looked into)