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The Archbishop of Westminster said recently in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph newspaper that the amount of texting and e-mailing that children, teens and adults alike engaged in was “dehumanizing†and dangerous for the society. He argued that constructing friendship relationships exclusively around the Internet or text messages was very dangerous, because it placed people at the risk of not knowing how to communicate with each other when they were face to face. One might argue that the church official has a reason to be alarmed up to a point, but that the situation is not as bleak as painted. “Friendship is not a commodity, friendship is something that is hard work and enduring when it's right. I think there's a worry that an excessive use, or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community,†Vincent Nichols!
, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales, told the newspaper, Reuters informs. He also mentioned the fact that social networks and popular networking websites carried large risks for their users, especially young ones. Nichols argued that the large number of friends some people ...
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