The quality of online social relationships
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- 1 July 2002
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 45 (7) , 103-108
- https://doi.org/10.1145/514236.514242
Abstract
Online relationships are less valuable than offline ones. Indeed, their net benefit depends on whether they supplement or substitute for offline social relationships.Keywords
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