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From: weiser.pa@XEROX.COM
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Subject: Re: psychology of computer use.
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Date: 12 Jan 89 17:18:21 GMT
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"The one study done in this area.. states
that Computer Communication causes users to like each other less..  Do you
agreewith this?"

Not in the slightest.  The biggest effect for me has been to get me in
touch with hundreds more people of whom I would otherwise have never known.
Some are jerks, true, but that is true everywhere, not just with computer
communication.  They can always be ignored.  But the many other fine people
I first meet on the net by far make up for any negatives.

As for people I first met in person, and later worked with electronically,
without the computer communications I would have lost touch with these
people, but with it I have stayed in touch.  It has not usually made me
like them better, but also no worse.


-mark