Social networking under fresh attack as tide of cyber-scepticism sweeps US

Twitter and Facebook don’t connect people – they isolate them from reality, say a rising number of academicsThe way in which people frantically communicate online via Twitter, Facebook and instant messaging can be seen as a form of modern madness, according to a leading American sociologist.”A behaviour that has become typical may still express the problems that once caused us to see it as pathological,” MIT professor Sherry Turkle writes in her new book, Alone Together, which is leading an attack on the information age.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/jan/22/social-networking-cyber-scepticism-twitter