302). The experience of continuous demands from the computer runs counter to what is required for interaction with people. The inanimate object is there to satisfy all the cyber desires at the press of a key. A person will not function in the same manner. Interacting with flesh and blood requires a different attitude, which is not engaged when the computer is interfaced with regularly. The net result of that practice is diminished civility and a boorishness that impresses demands on others. To get services from people requires politeness and at times social grace; these are not involved in the digital interaction with the computer. Perhaps the most damning element of excessive computer usage occurs when the virtual confuses the real, and this happens at times with deadly consequences. Horsburgh and Dodd (2003) forcefully recount a scenario where a young man dies while his virtual friends look on. They quote John Perry Barlow who says, "What makes this different is that the edge was blunted by being virtual" (p.306). There is a blurring of the virtual and the real. This blurring benefits the virtual world at the expense of the real world experiences. Persons who spend immoderate amounts of time in a virtual environment begin to interpret all life as virtual. Even the sight of an individual engaging in a self-destructive act does not have the kind of forcefulness it would have in the real world. The distance imposed by computer interaction serves as a barrier to assistance...
This is blurring can have disastrous results even when the action engaged in is unintentional. The mother of the young man is "adamant that her son would never have intentionally killed himself" (Horsburgh and Dodd, 2003, p.306). This may be the most damaging element of the problem. The highly structured nature of the digital world insulates users from reality. Individuals are safe behind a computer screen and believe that they have control; nothing could be further from the truth. The potential for chaos and disaster is not limited because of the employment of distance. Real actions taken in a virtual context has real consequences. Herein lays the conundrum, the ability to transmit to young people that even in your home you are not safe. Dangerous acts will be debilitating anywhere.
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In fact, Eijnden at al (2008) found that shy or socially anxious youth did not use instant messaging to foster friendships and instead used the Internet and their computers mainly for games and other non-social activities. When used judiciously to promote healthy identity formation and development or to facilitate human communications, the Internet can be a boon for society. However, the Internet has quickly become an emblem of deep-rooted social
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Likewise, a similar study by Desai et al. (2000) that compared traditional lecture format training with CBT found that, "The CBT subjects' overall end-of-training and one-month-after-training performance was significantly better than [the traditional lecture method] subjects' performance" (p. 239). By sharp contrast, the analysis of the effectiveness of CBT by Bowman et al. (2009) found that the effectiveness of this alternative can be adversely affected by a number of Navy-specific
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