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I know the online communication and community could never replace physical human interaction. At least it shouldn't. Science has shown repeatedly that the human touch makes such an impact on our development and physical health.
Personally - I crave the cyber communication. I run a home day care and rarely leave the house some of the winter months. I interact with my husband and the kids but it's not sufficient. Hubby can't be asked to provide all my adult conversation when he deals with people all day long and enjoys a little quiet alone time in he evening. My 4 yr old daughter and the other younger children are obviously not much for adult conversation. So I learn and interact with many here and on chat on and off throughout the day. Without this interaction I get lonely and irritable with hubby. I enjoy being on the phone as well which still lacks the physical aspect but allows the auditory/oral part of communication to come into play. I think we need all different types of communication. I think it might even possible that we need communication that relys only on the solitary words on paper or on a computer screen. Reading does trigger different brain development than oral speaking. I think this would be interesting to do a study on - not sure where one would begin though.
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