http://mashable.disqus.com/Internet and Technology News - Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused exclusively on Web 2.0 and Social Networking news. With more than 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web.enSun, 27 Jan 2008 08:26:02 -0000http://mashable.com/2008/01/26/online-social-networking-does-it-make-you-happy/#comment-5993079<p>We all know which nations of the world are well developed and which are still in the early and middle stages of their own industrial revolutions. Is it too far fetched to think that the complex frameworks that are Web-based social networks play at least a small role in the exhaustion of happiness in the developed world?</p><p>OK: <br>1. Progress is a myth, and is certainly not linear and there is nothing more racist, classist then this solipsistic logic.</p><p>2.If 1. was too much and your default defenses are up then let me break it down: Assuming that the rest of the world are in earlier stages of what we have been through and we are like the happy masters waiting for them to play catch up and decide what Web-based social networks will mean for any/everyone or connect any of that to happiness then you are extremely dull and predictable.</p>crispenSun, 27 Jan 2008 08:26:02 -0000http://mashable.com/2008/01/26/online-social-networking-does-it-make-you-happy/#comment-5993078<p>This seems like a clear cut case of less is more. Sure the social networks make it easier to keep in touch with mass amounts of people, but it still doesn't compare to close relationships with friends done primarily face to face.</p>Shawn KSat, 26 Jan 2008 08:30:44 -0000