We find by giving our sons limits and rights, they understand the limits because they also know they have rights. It s what happens to people who spend 12 hours a day scrolling and chatting and downloading, isolated from people, from social functions, from the breeze of a spring day, the touch of Grandma s hand, the cold of Spot s nose. Forget the weirdos and political posturing. We are in danger of creating a generation of Internet introverts. Internet introverts are not computer nerds.
Computer nerds are people whose social existence revolves around computers.
They use a cloak of computer-based anonymity to say what they want, view what they want, read what they want. Their numbers are growing as access to the online world increases. A social phenomenon, very different from the social or real world, is birthing itself online. So we d best stop the creation of new Internet introverts, one at a time, now. I am online and have been since 1985.