Social Websites Can Lead to Poor Health unless your online activity yields real life relationships.
But if you only have “virtual” friends, it may make you sick researchers say.
“People feel the harmful effects of social isolation so they have a greater need to connect to other people, and this drives the use of electronic media technologies,” Sparks says. “This is a paradox, because while these technologies may yield some benefits, they may also have simultaneous drawbacks that actually lead us away from close relationships. The more time we invest online, the more time it takes away from our prime relationship time of face-to-face interactions.”
So if your work at home business means you never go outside, at least take your laptop to the coffee shop and make some real world friends. And you might even want to get away from the computer and have a date with your spouse!
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