On Dorothy Chin

On Dorothy Chin’s “The Internet Encourages Isolation”, I feel that the writer is biased, and her argument to be primarily based on her own social insecurities in dealing with the Internet. The writer begins with an anecdote of a 4-year old girl with a racist stereotype of “dark people”. Chin believes that the reason for the child’s reaction to dark people is due to faulty reasoning, in hand with limited experience of people …

…entirely true because of video and audio devices that allows us to actually hear and see other people. So, how can she assume that through this type of technology, it could actually isolate us from each other, when in fact it has brought all types of people together? Regardless of technology, there is and will always be individuals who need to be around other people. For these individuals chatting on the Internet will not suffice.