Americans are increasingly just saying no to sex and friends

[mandy]

Surfing the net has become an obsession for many Americans with the majority of U.S. adults feeling they cannot go for a week without going online and one in three giving up friends and sex for the Web...

"People told us how anxious, isolated and bored they felt when they are forced off line," said Ann Mack, director of trend spotting at JWT, which conducted the survey to see how technology was changing people's behavior...

More than a quarter of respondents -- or 28 percent -- admitted spending less time...

full article: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/61620,amer...-life.aspx

[mandy]

Another poll of Americans with similar results:

The Zogby/463 Internet Attitudes poll found that 24% of Americans said the Internet could serve as a replacement for a significant other. Not surprisingly, the percentage was highest among singles, of which 31% said it could be a substitute. There was no difference among males and females but there was a split based on political ideology. Thirty-one percent of those who called themselves “progressives” were open-minded to the Internet serving as a surrogate significant other while only 18% of those who consider themselves “very conservative” would consider it a substitute...

full article: http://www.zogby.com/news/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1378

[BellisimaJ.]

Thirty-one percent of those who called themselves “progressives” were open-minded to the Internet serving as a surrogate significant other

WTF?? 

Last I heard, the net still isn't the place to tell your secrets, have someone to hold your hand, cuddle with, make love to, etc..  SHEESH................. :