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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Gauguin who wrote (12359)9/8/1998 9:15:00 PM
From: JF Quinnelly   of 71178
 
Damned lurkers have been reading our thread again:

Carnegie Mellon's HomeNet study hit the world
(online and off) with a big thud--inspiring a
front page story in the Sunday New York Times
with the memorable headline "Researchers Find Sad,
Lonely World In Cyberspace." The headline, and to
a lesser degree the article itself, conjured up images
of a tribe of pasty-faced geeks, sitting alone in the
sickly glow of their computer monitors, quietly sobbing,
having systematically alienated every real friend
they had in the real world in favor of vague virtual
dalliances with other geeks as miserable and antisocial
as they are. The article--and follow-up articles on the
wire services, on CNN and the BBC--painted a picture of
a world far different than the perky paradise seen in
all those commercials for America Online. David Futrelle
takes investigates the study's findings and soothes our
bruised egos.
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