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Many national studies found that internet users were not less likely to visit or call friends and that they actually have larger social networks (DiMaggio et. al. 2001).
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I am totally with the author of at this point. Most of us do have the opinion that a person who is really obsessed with internet will definitely be unsociable. However, that is not the case anymore. Many years ago I actually did think in this way because of the emerge of vast internet games that fascinated younger generation. Fortunately, this kind of negative affect of internet did not last long. Now, we tend to use internet mostly in gathering information and social life. We keep in touch with our friends, relatives through Skype and Facebook. We also search for useful information with the help of amazing reference websites such as Google and Wikipedia. It is an undeniable fact that internet has brought us all the convenience that we could hardly ask for a decade ago and has become an inseparable part of our routine life.
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Owens, Laura. "Internet & Anti-Social Behavior Theory Unfounded." suite101. N.p., 23 Apr. 2009. Web. 23 Oct. 2011.
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