This article "Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US" - discusses the isolation that has resulted from avid Twitter and Facebook users.

So of course I thought I'd post on Facebook!  And show that I'm crazy!

Users are disconnected from reality with greater isolation.   I would tend to agree.  A posting on twitter or Facebook is the Chinese fast food of social interaction - no real nutritional value - and leaves you wanting later.    The article examines a particular book, "Alone Together" which says, "Turkle's thesis is simple: technology is threatening to dominate our lives and make us less human. Under the illusion of allowing us to communicate better, it is actually isolating us from real human interactions in a cyber-reality that is a poor imitation of the real world."  The question is about how one uses social media.  As an easy fix instead of getting out into the world, a brief chalkboard, a portal to a perceived reality?

A great book was written in the 70's called, "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television."   Not likely, but still it made on aware that the impressions on the brain from television were eroding our ability to tell fact from fiction.   We may not be able to separate our true experiences from television experiences.  These cross-collateralized experiences give us a false sense of false sense of our own history - causing us to take on risks that we wouldn't ordinarily take.  These risks might include the use of violence in a criminal manner.  Remember, when the bad guy is caught on television, he or she is taken away in handcuffs.  The show cuts to a commercial but not their ten, twenty or thirty years in prison.   No mental connection is made in our brain.

Other Key findings:

•A recent bestseller in the US, The Shallows by Nicholas Carr, suggested that use of the internet was altering the way we think to make us less capable of digesting large and complex amounts of information, such as books and magazine articles. The book was based on an essay that Carr wrote in the Atlantic magazine. It was just as emphatic and was headlined: Is Google Making Us Stupid?

•Another strand of thought in the field of cyber-scepticism is found in The Net Delusion, by Evgeny Morozov. He argues that social media has bred a generation of "slacktivists". It has made people lazy and enshrined the illusion that clicking a mouse is a form of activism equal to real world donations of money and time.

•But even the backlash now has a backlash, with many leaping to the defence of social media. They point out that emails, Twitter and Facebook have led to more communication, not less – especially for people who may have trouble meeting in the real world because of great distance or social difference.