The social impact of the Internet has been under close scrutiny for many years. One issue that has generated a great deal of debate among researchers is the effect of Internet use on interpersonal connectivity (Sproull & Kiesler, 1991; Uslaner, 2000).
Three major conflicting findings have been reported:
Internet use decreases social ties,
Internet use increases social ties, and
Internet use neither decreases nor increases social ties (Wellman, Haase, Witte, & Hampton, 2001).
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