Your article seems to imply
that there is something worse about spending 10 hours a week surfing the Web than other pastimes.
Why isn’t 10 hours a week spent reading books, watching television, doing crossword
puzzles, listening to music, or other solitary hobbies just as “socially isolating”? The sports fan
who watches 10 hours of football in one weekend seems far worse to me.
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