I've thought the following for a while, but I've decided to put it here because of something that my cousin said, "nobody was ever cured by email and no one ever will be".
Most communication technology from the invention of writing through to books and newspapers and now to radio, TV, email, facebook, and twitter give us the illusion of company, of social interplay, of friendship, while we remain alone, and with many personalities, such as my own, we retreat into the illusion of contact with others rather than than actual contact.
We come to think that the writers we read, the broadcasters we listen to, the soap characters we follow are somehow our friends or part of our social group, and that emailing or tweeting or facebooking is an equivalent to talking to a friend or loved one.
I've wasted 30 years in this virtual world, from reading newspapers and magazines regularly, to visiting and writing blogs, to having a sex life based almost entirely on the use of pornography and doing most of my communication by letters and emails.
As I type this very line, the following item is being broadcast on the BBC Radio News - I agree with him utterly:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8180115.stm
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