Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Online networking "harms health"
according to this report !
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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Just as well we spend a lot of time down at the pub yacking to one another then.
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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I take it that the broken link indicates that the report is empty and meaningless?
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Permalink Reply by Liz on
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Surely depends on what type of social network, how people use it and the personality/age of the person.
I would not have met any of the people I now regularly interact face to face with (like you Adam) without this social network. I didn't have a local social life because I was at home with 2 small children. The only threat to my health I can see is the effect on my liver of a night out with John.
Facebook tends to be used by a lot of people to keep in contact with farflung friends and relatives that you can't interact with much. I personally have reconnected with lots of people who live very far from me. I don't tend to use it much to talk to my friends close by except to email about meeting up.
Twitter is about networking for business and other benefit and inevitably leads to meet ups with people that you wouldn't have met in the normal run of things.
So my point is that because social networks are varied and serve many different purposes, I can't see how a blanket statement like 'social networking' can harm health' can be made. I find that people are more likely to instigate meet ups and social activities as a result of social networking.
I imagine people thought the printing press would harm people because all those people reading books for themselves would mean they wouldn't be able to talk to their neighbours any more and would probably damage their brains from all those big ideas. Then again they probably didn't have so many 'experts' in those days.
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