The Church: The Internet is BAD FOR YOU

Posted by anthonykuo , Aug, 2009 @ 10:29 am

The Roman Catholic Church is no newbie to condemning things, often without a real compelling reason to do so. In its latest condemnation, the head of Roman Catholic Church in England warns against the dangers of SMS, email, and social networking.

According to Vincent Nichols, head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, modern friendships built around (or involving) heavy SMS volley, electronic mail correspondences, and social networking sites create “transient relationships” which put users at the risk of suicide. Yes, suicide. According to the British man of the cloth, using electronic communication to build friendships is causing humanity to lose “the ability to build interpersonal communication that’s necessary for living together.” [Engadget]

But he may be right in some respects. Humans are evolutionarily hard-wired to deal with close interpersonal relations. After all, we did come from small clans of cavemen, and non-interaction usually meant death and being pulled out from the gene pool (unless you’re uber-religious and don’t believe in evolution, in which case, we sprung forth from the Earth…unless that’s too much pagan imagery for you…oh forget it.)

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