From today's Guardian, an article about the dangers of Facebook, Bebo, Twitter et al...
"Lady Greenfield, professor of synaptic pharmacology at Lincoln college, Oxford, and director of the Royal Institution, has led members of the government to admit their work on internet regulation has not extended to broader issues, such as the psychological impact on children.
She said she feared 'real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitised and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf. Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction.' "
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/24/social-networking-site-changing-childrens-brains
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In my experience so far, the “virtual” world can be just as messy as the “real” one.
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