![]() In the past, how many individuals and families have suffered from these degenerative influences? Now we have the internet. “The enemies of social connectivity are silence, disengagement, distance, and abandonment. We will all be richer from it.” -Michael Burns, co-founder and principal, i5 web works The social nature of the net allows us to be better informed about friends, and family than ever before. I don’t like all aspects of the social net, but the reach is so much better. I am able to communicate and ‘experience’ so much more with so many more than I could even two years ago. ![]() “Today and tomorrow, my social reach is much wider as a result of the internet. I will have better awareness of all the people in my life who are important to me.” -Hal Eisen, senior engineering manager at Ask.com ![]() “The internet is a tool, one which reduces the costs of communications. Location-based social networking, in particular, will be a big part of our lives.” -Craig Newmark, founder and customer-service representative, Craigslist, former software engineer and programmer at companies such as JustInTime Solutions, Bank of America and IBM “The net is about people connecting online, for commerce, politics, and personally, and we already see that enhances real-life relationships. All these trends will continue to hold strong over the next decade. Another advantage that it is much easier now to build communities on the fly via personal broadcasts. Richer social relations emerge from this greater awareness. One big advantage is that email, social networking tools and other apps allow people to maintain bigger social networks and allow people to learn more about those in their networks. ![]() The internet has been embraced globally at an amazing speed because of its capabilities for communication and connection – for creating, cultivating, and continuing social relationships. They were asked to “share your view of the internet’s influence on the future of human relationships in 2020 – what is likely to stay the same and what will be different in human and community relations?” Following is a small selection of the hundreds of written elaborations, organized according to some of the major themes that emerged in the answers. Survey participants were encouraged to explain their choice after they selected one of the tension-pair scenarios. The other most-often-mentioned digital networked communications methods included in the survey-takers answers were email, voice over IP (Skype is one example that was used), and text-messaging. The growing popularity of social networks over the past five years has had a significant impact on personal and professional relationships and many survey participants referred to Facebook and social networks in general in their answers. In all of the tension pairs offered in the 2010 survey, people’s answers were dependent upon how they defined the key terms in the question set – in this instance, the respondents’ individual definition of the word “social” was primary and it varied, as expected. Most participants’ enthusiasm for the type of connectedness they feel online is evident, and many told their own specific and very personal stories in the written elaborations. Survey participants were asked to reflect on their personal experiences. Still, quite a few people took advantage of the opportunity to provide written elaborations in which they pointed out many negatives, and they shared other incisive observations. Technology experts embrace the use of networked communications technologies and are naturally inclined to find them to be useful in social relations, so it is no surprise to see the high level of agreement that the Internet is a tool that gets positive results.
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