As a result, many marriages are confronting a new kind of trouble. While it's too soon to predict whether virtual connection will increase the divorce rate, marriages and families are at risk to become merely a collection of individuals who live together with a computer as boss. I love Lucy. Or, if it was a family member's favorite program, everyone knew that Dad might be lost to his Sunday afternoon football game, or mom to her particular news show or soap. Whatever one's program preference, it was time limited and not as computers can become, all encompassing all day, every day.
Individuals tend to commune with their particular machine in isolation.
And, at least until computers become significantly interactive, loneliness and a sense of family fragmentation and even spiritual loss will continue to rise. There is a down side to our technological revolution and many families are all too familiar with it. Don't let technology tear your marriage apart. Think about your computer and how you and your family are using it. As a couple, or as a family, make a decision about how you will keep special together time and when that time will be.