Fixed posture, changing visual ...

A fixed posture, change the visual images Do not you think that the warnings that the internet is a destructive effect on the psyche of the user - no more than a narrow-minded fears? Some time ago, on this occasion was a mass of theoretical arguments and has not been any specific studies. Today the situation is reversed: the mass of research and analysis almost none. No answers to the question: what can we expect in the future? Although more or less clear definition of what the Internet is, psychologists have yet to eat. Network name not only information environment, but also social. Now there is plenty of evidence of influence of the Internet on the psyche. What, for example? Of interest to study how Web users perceive themselves. Eighty percent of users self-esteem change. About forty percent of the "population" of the Internet have an unrealistic self-image. In the fifth part of users, it is understated. Approximately the same number of users is characterized excessive emphasis on its independence. Another interesting detail - for Internet users characteristically distorted perception of their own physical body. In addition, it became clear that these people there are a lot of emotional problems - instability, depression and loneliness that is felt acutely. These problems have brought it online? This is one of the options. While perhaps web users initially had such qualities. Internet drew them as a means of getting rid of problems. I incline to the view that people who are "Internet users' specific qualities from the outset, but they were reinforced by the Internet. Using the Network, such people fall into the medium their own kind, so the online reality seems to them more adequate than the real world. Emerges cheerless dystopia like "The Matrix". The virtual world is beginning to compete with the real? Yes, absolutely clearly that we have a new world. Different from reality, and that its "excellent" increased from year to year. The ideologists of the Internet say that in the next ten years will be the network of outlets. Therefore, it is likely that people, by today's standards with serious mental health problems, after ten or fifteen years will be the predominant type. Then, perhaps, psychology will be considered the norm these problems. I find this situation similar to the plot of the book Strugatsky brothers "Ugly Swans". There is described a new evolutionary type of people. Initially, this strange children, then it turns out that they are completely different from the others. And there is a search engine "new" people among the "usual". I think the Internet is like the mechanism. That is, the network effect on the stratification of society? We are not yet visible. There is a myth that the Internet is a tool of democracy. In Russia, this myth emphasized the activities of the Soros Foundation, which helped us attached to the Internet. However, in the U.S. today, many say that the Internet facilitates the formation of the elite.