Cyber Circle ; Forget the Local Pub the Internet Is Now the Place to Make New Friends. By John Triggs
Mail on Sunday › March 17, 2004
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YOU ONLY HAVE TO LOOK AT one of television's most popular comedy series to see that it's the tight bond of friendship that brings people the most happiness. But would Friends be the same if Monica, Rachel and Phoebe comforted each other in an internet chatroom rather than on the cosy sofas of Central Perk cafE?
Perhaps a series of Friends conducted entirely over the internet might not have had as many laughs but, say relationship experts, it would have been more realistic.See the full content of this document
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Cyber Circle ; Forget the Local Pub the Internet Is Now the Place to Make New Friends. By John Triggs
'The image of a group of friends living such close-knit lives as they do on TV is so rare these days that it's almost a fantasy,' says Malcolm Stern, a psychotherapist and presenter of Channel 4's relationship series, Made for Each Other.
In the future, say sociologists, your social circle is lik...See the full content of this document
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