<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0b153e9c-3f0a-4119-9061-e73c93cb3b57/2FF4C7A0-EF2F-4FB8-9FBC-7D3C066CEE08/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/" href="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/" style="font-size: 11px;">mashable.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/"> <DIV class="author-photo"> <A href="http://mashable.com/author/stan-schroeder/"><DIV class="entry_author_image"><IMG alt="" src="http://cdn.mashable.com/wp-content/authors/Stan%20Schroeder-271.jpg" ev_id="36" /></DIV> </A> <DIV class="author-dropdown"> <A class="view-my" href="#">View my</A> <DIV class="cont"> <DIV class="cont-bg"> <UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A class="articles" rel="nofollow" href="http://mashable.com/author/stan-schroeder/">My Posts</A></LI> </UL> <UL class="follow"> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.facebook.com/people/Stan_Schroeder/516097462" class="icon-facebook">Facebook</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="external nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/franticnews" class="icon-twitter">Twitter</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="external nofollow" href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/stanschroeder" class="icon-linkedin">LinkedIn</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="external nofollow" href="http://digg.com/users/frant1c" class="icon-digg">Digg</A></LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A rel="external nofollow Blippr" href="http://www.blippr.com/profiles/frantic" class="icon-blippr"></A></LI> </UL> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV class="headline"> <H1><A title="Permanent Link to MYTH BUSTED: Internet Use Doesn’t Lead to Isolation" rel="bookmark" class="fn url" href="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/">MYTH BUSTED: Internet Use Doesn’t Lead to Isolation</A></H1></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/"><STRONG class="dtreviewed">November 5th, 2009 | by <A title="Posts by Stan Schroeder" href="http://mashable.com/author/stan-schroeder/">Stan Schroeder</A></STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mashable.com/img/7A02D912-7479-499A-8E7C-07551B3717E1" alt="women_internet_laptop" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/mashable.com/img/20A38F37-7869-4D80-B9C5-2660410D3130" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/">Imagine this: once a happy child with a lot of friends, little Jack has started spending many hours per day on social networking sites such as Facebook, which has turned him into a pale asocial freak. Oh, if only he’d never touched that cursed box we call the computer, he’d be a healthy young man now!</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/">a <A target="_blank" href="http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20091104/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_techbit_internet_isolation">study</A> conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, it’s simply <STRONG>not true</STRONG>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://mashable.com/2009/11/05/social-networking-isolation/"><P>“Social media activities are associated with several beneficial social activities, including having discussion networks that are more likely to contain people from different backgrounds. For instance, frequent internet users, and those who maintain a blog are much more likely to confide in someone who is of another race. Those who share photos online are more likely to report that they discuss important matters with someone who is a member of another political party.”</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2FF4C7A0-EF2F-4FB8-9FBC-7D3C066CEE08/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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