From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 04:21:05 MST
naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) writes:
> I can already see the sociologists slobbering over the ways the
> net impoverished my social life. Unfortunately, it didn't. My
> off-net social life may be poor, but irrespective of such qualitative
> judgment, I can assure you that it's been the way it is for as long
> as I remember, i.e. at least since pre-school. That covers about
> 15 years of pre-net time. And it seems to run in the family.
Here is an interesting issue: what do we mean by poor social life? Is
it poor in the sense "less social interaction than I want" or "less
social interaction than average people want"? Or are there issues of
social interaction depth too? How to factor out subjective views and
cultural assumptions about how interactions should occur from what
*we* want and need?
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