And, as the Internet's technology advances, it will make it even easier and faster to do our shopping, take classes and get our diplomas online. In time, we just might witness the disappearance of classrooms and shopping malls, causing a further decline in human contact. As the Internet overcomes households, people will eventually spend days and weeks without ever leaving their homes. People need to balance their lives and not develop a dangerous obsession with the Internet. Parents should monitor how much time their kids spend on the Web, making sure their children spend equal time interacting with the other kids in their neighborhood.
Life is too beautiful to become a virtual concept.
I have a friend who has sex with women he meets on the Internet. Real life, down and dirty sex. He swears he's not surfing for quickies on the Net, but that's irrelevant for the moment. When I read about recent studies concluding that Internet users are becoming more and more isolated from society, I was baffled. Stanford University's Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society surveyed 4,113 people and came to the conclusion that people who use the Internet extensively spend more time at work and less time with friends and family.