Causing autism this week: social networking sites

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we must ban facebook... for it is evil.

who is with me?

Whenever new technology is discovered, found to be useful, and becomes widely used, there are those who fear it it and warn of its dangers, dangers ranging from realistic to hypothetical to completely imaginary. The pattern persists throughout history.

Imagine when people started using fire . . .

i am totally for the banning of facebook, as i have mentionned why in a previous post (basicly, not even Myspace is that evil as you can delete your account and everything, and Facebook won't let you... o.o )

Also, i doubt there is a general cause to autism or Asperger, i've been born with ADD (environnemental cause, lack of oxygen to the brain during birth) and i would never have guessed i'd turn out to be an Aspie =.= (i'll admit i've played video games ever since i was 5 or 7...). I had done some research some time ago on ADD, and they said it could lead to other disorders though, like Tourette's or schizophrenia... i forgot the rest...

Because of course Facebook is evil.. as opposed to a communication tool like any other....

That's true, for example, how the entertainment industry goes to stupid lengths to convince everyone that file sharing is evil and must die and that BitTorrent must be blocked and The Pirate Bay must be censored!! !! !

BITTORRENT IS EVIL - IT REDUCES THE RIAA'S PROFIT!! !! !! !! ! THEY ONLY MADE 200 BILLION IN THE PAST 10 YEARS ITS NOT GOOD ENOUGH!! !! !! !! !! !!

They had the same attitude to tapes, TV, VHS... Every single new technology.

Ooops, I went a bit off-topic there, didn't I?

I tried Second Life for a few hours and it sucks. In Second Life, to do anything apart from walking or speaking, you have to find premade actions and reuse them endlessly. It's maddening.

Second Life seems at first like it would be like a roleplaying chatroom, only better, but chatrooms are actually much more interesting. In Second Life you can only dance according to a script. In real life you can dance anyway you are physically able to. But in a chatroom you can dance anyway you can describe. You are limited only by your imagination.


That's true, but autism doesn't have a single cause that I know of. So in a sense a diagnosis of autism is only a diagnosis of the symptoms, unless they've started using brain scans to do it.

I suppose one test would be whether the person's social skills return if they stop using those websites so extensively.