The study I referred to was done by people who wanted to *promote* computer
use. That's one of the reasons I found their un-wished-for results to be
more credible.

Isolation is the term suggested by my psychologist, because the interaction
has at least 2/3 of the normal, non-verbal (and least often incorrect)
information. That flatness in the communication, and especially the huge
increase of total information/data, in words and pictures, causes
overstimulation/Depression.

Tina


"Carla" wrote in message
ink.net...
See, this is why a lot of those kinds of studies make me crazy. Look
around here and see people who might be isolated if they weren't on
line, but there's a study saying the computer isolates people.

So sometimes, it seems, whoever is conducting these types of surveys,
they're looking in the wrong places for their answers; or, in the case
of the internet, they're using "isolated" to mean no face-to-face
contact, since words on screen don't really count, or something. Feh.

Cheers,
Carla (happy to be "isolated" with so many fabulous folks)

Dr. Sooz wrote:

'cause I'm saying that in my case, computers are what prevent me from
being isolated.

-Kalera


Me too. I find it terribly daunting to get out and about much of the
time. I
need the human contact computers give me to maintain any semblance of a
social
life.
~~
Sooz