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		isleyaardvark on Feb 20, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Internet? Bah (1995) Earlier today I went to the Facebook profile of a friend of mine who lives out of state. He had uploaded a video of his child singing and had it on his profile. There are many more means of human contact than meeting at a coffee shop.

InclinedPlane on Feb 20, 2010 [–]

Exactly. The internet is a complement to, not a replacement for, face-to-face contact.

See also: that little known and rarely used technology, the telephone.

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