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"Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter don't just connect people; they can isolate them from reality, say some sociologists. What do you think?"

If there really were a common Human reality that was the same for everyone, that everyone perceived in the same way, the question might be easier to answer. But there are approaching eight billion individual perceptual Human 'realities' amongst us and, for the individual, what THEY see is 'reality'. Few of us have identical perceptual realities however much we may agree on many things, there will be differences. So the first question that must be asked is if there is a 'standard' reality, what or who determines what it is? What Authority determines this IS reality, that is NOT? Is disagreeing with what the majority believes to be 'reality' to be considered being "isolated" from 'reality'? Or do we just accept the term 'reality' as a 'thing' despite its completely nebulous reality and accuse people of being isolated from it when their perceptions don't agree with our own perceptions? And aren't Facebook and Twitter designed to SHARE realities? I think the initial statement needs to be rephrased and the 'some say' part expanded before any thought is given to one's own perceptions of the 'reality' of its claim.

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Social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter don't just connect people; they can isolate them from reality, say some sociologists. What do you...