There is no doubt that the internet brings the capacity for connection with others; however, there is an equally important downside of this phenomenon:
If boredom is the great emotion of the TV generation, loneliness is the great emotion of the Web generation. We lost the ability to be still, our capacity for idleness. When we live exclusively in relation to others, what disappears from our lives is solitude."
William Deresiewicz, "The End of Solitude", The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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