摘要
网络社交有助于我们与比现实世界中更加多元的人交流,提升我们的心理幸福感。过度依赖网络社交会对我们的性格产生负面影响,从而影响我们和他人建立真正的友谊。
1 The biggest criticism(批评)of social net⁃working is that our young people are losing their offline friends to online friends.In fact,there is a lot of research that shows these criticisms are generally unfounded.Research by Allen found that people are not replacing offline friends with online companions but are using them to support their offline relationships.It also found that our online friendships actually allow us to have discussions with a much more diverse set of people than in the real world and improve our psychological happiness.