The internet provides an amazing forum for the free exchange of ideas. given the relatively a few restrictions governing access and usage, it is the communications modal equivalence of international waters.(1)____(2)____ however i am also troubled by the possible unintended negative consequences.
There has been much talk about the "new information age." but much is less widely reported has been the notion that the internet may be responsible for furthering the fragment of society by alienating its individual users.(3)____(4)____ at first this might sound like an apparent contradiction: how can something which is on the one hand responsible for global unification by enabling the free exchange of ideas alienate the participant?(5)____(6)____
I had a recent discussion with a friend of mine who has what he described as a "problem" with the internet when i questioned about him further he said that he was "addicted," and has "forced" himself to go off-line.(7)____ he said that he felt like an alcoholic, in that moderate use of the internet was just possible for him.(8)____ i have not known this fellow to be given to exaggeration, therefore when he described his internet binges, when he would spend over twenty-four hours on line non-stop, it gave me pause to think. he said, "the internet isn't true, but i was spending all my time on line, so i just had to stop."(9)____ he went on to say that all of the time that he spent on line might have skewed his sense of reality, and that it made him feel lonely and depressing.(10)____

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