Internet - an improved means of a meaningful dialog or an instrument of producing an increased illusion of communication

At present Internet covers almost all fields of human life and has become a channel of communication most extensively used. The Network environment provides a person with a variety of means to fulfill its communicative potential without being limited by historically established codes of society. This activity is both positively and negatively estimated. This article focuses on certain specific features of computer-mediated communication, and attempts to point out under what conditions it tends to produce destructive influence on both intellectual and emotional health of a person.

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