And social connections, including interaction with friends, may be very important, some suspect.
Instead, wrote Nick Thomas, an analyst at Forrester, "real-world social interaction with friends remains important for online teens".
Like Borgore, McGuinness makes a pointed effort to arrange steady, real-life interaction with friends and family.
I'd have sought out ways to find the interaction with friends that I need, much as I find ways to have those interactions around my work now.
By making instant recess the default option, she said, no one has to decide to exercise or carve out a special time to do it, and some of the rewards are immediate — among them camaraderie, social interaction with friends and co-workers, stress relief, muscle relaxation, increased energy, improved mood and better concentration.
Interaction with friends through walls, blogs and voice chat.
Paul Zak, a neuroeconomist at Claremont Graduate University and the director of its Center for Neuroeconomics Studies, studies the power of story in our daily interactions with friends, strangers, books, television, and other media.
Wry, playful and poignant, they often portray humdrum annoyances of suburban family life and the trials of having children, owning pets and daily interactions with friends and colleagues.
In interactions with friends, we all care about examining each others' images, and we carefully emphasize the images that we present to our friends.
The Stanford study -- which was also covered prominently in the news media -- asked participants whether their interactions with friends and family had increased, decreased or stayed the same after using the Internet.
