Michael Pollak: " That sort of sounds like the stale debate, no?
> Is this post asocial? If I spend an hour doing stuff like this, am I
really
> not interacting with friends? I'll buy that it's a different form of
social
> interaction. But not that it's the defining opposite of social.
Eric: Yeah, I like how, as with all these studies, "the Internet" exists outside of sociability and affects but is never actually a part of the social ideal.
Possible explanation: In such debates the internet is always the object of moral or ethical (i.e. moralistic) judgment, as as many have explain ethical judgment separates thought and act, which corresponds to the separation Eric describes.