The first thing that struck me about the email is the date it was published. The last article was publish about 50 years ago, but it's concepts and ideas are still very relevent today. This article on the other hand examines social relations before the myspace boom. My first thought was that everything would be horrible outdated and inaccurate , but this article was actually very interesting (even if my assumption is somewhat true).
I think this article, in a way, points out the obvious. Their main finding is that social relationships online are not as strong as those "that are developed in person or over the phone. I think that it is possible to create, develop and maintain relationships over the internet, but of course they are not going to develop as quickly as those in person or via phone. My reasoning for that is because online communication is not something that has always been engrained in our lifestyle. We were born with face to face communication with everyone around us, and even telephone conversations can replicate the audio portion of that. in 2000, typing to one another on computers was easy & convenient, but of course not as fluid to us as speech and physical movement was. However, maybe this will be different for the generations to come. Kids are using technology at a very young age, to the point that many preschoolers I know are able to type and operate computers. Online communication will be a bigger part of their lives and as a result, if the survey were to be reproduced today, the results would be different.
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