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For assignment 2, I will be discussing how the web has affected the lives of Internet user. I will attempt to answer whether Internet causes isolation. This in which will be supported by information taken from academic journals as well as textbooks. By taking the information found, a series of arguments will be made as a possible solution to the key question.

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Commented: Vince Leung Mar 28, 2010. Hey Cathy really great job on your paper i enjoyed reading it! I agree that our world is becoming a smaller place due to the benefits of the internet. In Roger Smiths //Google means every// he talks about what google is and what it represents. Google comes from the word //Googol// which means infinite. Roger explains google **has gone more than just become a search engine, it is based on advertising revenue to create googol's worth of tools, to reach a googol's worth of users who are performing a googol of different activities.** However, I always wondered if all this is making us all dumber with all this excess information. If we look at Wikipedia that information is really just a grouping of knowledge brought out from different sources (many from other internet sources developed by others). How reliable is this knowledge we will never really know unless we really got out there to research. Lots to do on the internet, lots to think about.

By the way, great job on the simple design you got on your website.

Smith, Roger. "Google means every." Research Technology Management 53.1 (2010):67-70.

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Amrita Lakhian March 29th 2010**
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I thought your paper was really interesting to read and a few things stood out to me. First of all I love that in the beginning you started with "It is the definition of social engagements that have changed". This statement is incredibly true. The whole impact of this new information society has completely changed the way we interact and socialize, what we used to see as independent behavior like playing video games, or playing on your computer have now become pass times that do encourage social interaction. People are still interacting with others but in just a less personal way, as well as less physical way. These sedimentary ways of life definitely link to the increase in obesity rates in society (Brown, Kelly). So not only is this new definition of social engagements changing the way we interact with people in a face to face situation, it is changing the overall health of society. Something else that stood out to me in your paper was the sentence "In the real world, a regular person would not steal CDs from a music store, however in the cyber realm, the same person would choose steal music". Again I totally agree with this statement. I was thinking maybe this is because in the cyber realm the music isn't tangible, it is not something that we are holding in our hands so we don't realize that what we are doing is actually wrong. Where as if you are in a store stealing a CD you are physically taking the CD out of the store you know there could be the chance that people are watching you, and you are aware that there are consequences of doing it. However on the internet there is the anonymity, and people don't think they're being watched.

Overall great paper, it really made me think further about how the internet is changing the way we interact.

Brown, Kelly. "The Pressure to Eat". //Nutrition Act, Health Letter.// http://www.cspinet.org/nah/7_98eat.htm

By: Usmaan Mujtaba March 30, 2010**
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Upon reading your paper, I got a better understanding of the effects that the internet is having on our social interactions; both on and off the web. The web is definitely making the world a smaller place. It connects us with people all around the world whom we are social with. Being social does not necessarily mean meeting up with them and talking to them face to face. MSN conversations and Facebook chat are totally acceptable ways of becoming social. Also, I think online users are more susceptible to committing music piracy online than stealing a music CD from a store because there is a sense of anonymity. What one does online is usually confined to their computer. Downloading music has also become socially acceptable. It has become normal for everyone to do, and hence, we are not longer afraid of committing this crime. I agree with the points you have made in your paper, and I really enjoyed reading it. I also like the website design, it was very simple and clean. P.S. Toy Story 2 is AWESOME! I can’t wait for Toy Story 3 to be released. Let’s not download that movie! Weisbein, Jeff. "Illegal Music Dowloading: Look At The Facts." //BestTechie.net//. 14 Apr. 2008. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. <[]/>.