Email shrinks the world

Email shrinks the world
“The theory that almost everyone on Earth is connected to anyone else via a small number of acquaintances seems to hold true for email, too.” BBC news
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3132023.stm

In this article, social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted an experiment to establish an idea that almost everyone is only six friends or acquaintances distant from anyone else. In his investigation, Stanley Milgram randomly selected people in the US mid- West to help get letters to a stockbroker friend in Boston in the East. However, the letters are not to be directly sent to him. Instead, those who are taking part were asked to hand them to people they knew well who might have social ties that might take the message closer to the target.
Technology indeed has shrunk the world into a miserable size. People now are connected to each other through a worldwide network of thousands of computers and computer networks, called the internet. The world today is no longer a vast and troublesome world where information takes ages to reach a target. It is an internet world, where long distance communication is being taken care of. From online chatting to online video conferencing like Skpecast, human are now stuck comfortably in their little cells. The internet world today inexorably makes face-to-face human contact redundant these days.
The world present today is a vast and complex world with millions of ways to communicate with one another and make new friends. Popular online websites such as Friendster uses chains of acquaintances to help people meet and make new friends. Online shopping have even witness a rise in popularity in recent years. Websites such as ebay and amazon have made shopping so much easier for people in the comfort zones of their homes.
However, even though technology such as email have made lives for people so much easier, face-to-face human contact and interaction is still vital and should not be compromised. Even till today, business deals are still done face-to-face, strategic partnership, large scales agreements, hiring, firings, acquisitions are still primarily done face-to-face. Technology shrinks the world, making people from all around the world closer. However, it still has it pros and cons and they are illustrated in the above discussion.
technological expert
Ernest