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Friends in high-tech places.
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- Author(s): Bond, Michael
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New Scientist. 5/24/2014, Vol. 222 Issue 2970, p40-43. 4p.
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The article discusses friendship in the Internet age, focusing on the impact of technology on friendship trends as of May 2014. Topics include studies indicating increasing social isolation and declining average number of close friends in the U.S. and Great Britain, the effect of social media services such as Facebook and Twitter, and research into sociable robots that convey the effect of feelings and personality.
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