Are You a Lonely Saddo?你是孤独的Saddo ？ Thought Not!思想不！

How are you feeling?你有何感想？ Working or playing long hours?工作或玩长时间？ Spending too much time checking Tweets and Pownces, Facebook pages, emails, scrolling through RSS feeds?花太多时间检查Tweets和Pownces ， Facebook网页，电子邮件，翻阅RSS种子？ Is all this social media and Web 2.0 getting you down?这是所有社会媒体和Web 2.0帮助您呢？ Seriously, is the Internet a sad, depressing world and is it storing up mental health problems?严重的是，互联网是可悲的，令人沮丧的世界，它储存了心理健康问题？

Those are the kinds of questions a learning science specialist in the UK is asking.这些种类的问题，一个学习科学专业在英国的要求。 And his answers may not surprise the enthusiasts who embrace modern media, but will confound the luddites and late-adopters who prefer to imagine that the Internet is somehow a denizen of misery, a friendless place for losers and loners.他的答案可能不会感到惊讶的爱好者谁拥抱现代传媒，但会混淆luddites和后期采用谁喜欢想像，互联网是不知一denizen的苦难，一个亲无故的地方输家和孤独。

“While the internet has become part of our critical infrastructure, its popularity has created a stir in the mental health community,” says Patrick Kierkegaard, “as clinicians are blaming the internet for causing depression and loneliness.” “虽然互联网已经成为我们的一部分，关键基础设施，它的普及创造了轰动的社会心理健康说： ”帕特里克克尔凯郭尔， “作为医生的责怪互联网造成抑郁和孤独。 ”

There have been numerous studies that have concluded that the apparent detachment from有许多研究，得出的结论是，明显脱离 face-to-face human contact面对面接触 that increasing reliance on modern electronic communications technology brings is likely to cause many individuals long-term problems.越来越依赖于现代化的电子通信技术带来了可能造成许多人长期的问题。 Problems such as a simple feeling of detachment from the “real” world for teleworkers and others who might spend several hours a day online to the kind of feelings of paranoia and loss that can ensue when an internet connection is interrupted and email becomes inaccessible or when a favorite site, such as的问题，如一个简单的感觉，脱离“真实”世界的远程和其他谁可能花费几个小时在线的那种感情的偏执和损失时，可随之而来的互联网连接中断和电子邮件变得无法或当最喜欢的网站，如 Twitter叽叽喳喳 , ， Facebook脸谱 , or even ，甚至 Flickr的Flickr is down.下降。

Kierkegaard points out that, “The interactive, engaging technology that fosters relationships through tools such as e-mail, discussion groups and online chat is now being blamed for replacing apparently vital, everyday human communication.” Worryingly, for the mental health experts, this is leading to the possibility that such prolonged exposure to avatars and anonymized characters behind a web browser window could lead to serious depression whether you’re a young MySpacer or a LinkedIn silver-surfer power user.克尔凯郭尔指出， “互动，参与技术，通过促进关系的工具如e - mail ，讨论组和在线聊天正在取代指责显然是至关重要的，日常人际交往。 ”令人担忧的是，对心理卫生专家，这领导的可能性，这种长期暴露在头像和匿名字符后面的网页浏览器窗口可能会导致严重的抑郁症无论你是一个年轻的MySpacer或LinkedIn的银色冲浪电力用户。

“Several scholars have accused the internet of having antisocial consequences and its popular image as a relationship builder has been debunked by experts, who suggest that social bonds may be breaking down because of it,” adds Kierkegaard. “一些学者指责互联网有反社会的后果，其广受欢迎的形象，关系建设者揭穿了由专家，谁表明，社会的债券可能会崩溃，因为它补充说： ”克尔凯郭尔。

As with many sociological studies, the researchers may have preconceived notions about what they expect to find.如同许多社会学研究中，研究人员可能已经先入为主的概念什么，他们期望找到。 Humans and their relationships are far too complicated to fit neatly into stereotypical research results, however, and Kierkegaard’s study of the data and conclusions from a whole range of studies seemingly puts paid to the simplistic conclusion that the Internet is breaking down social ties and causing depression.人类和他们的关系过于复杂，适合整齐地到定型的研究成果，然而，克尔凯郭尔的研究数据和结论，整个系列的研究，似乎把支付给简单化的结论是，互联网是打破了社会关系和导致抑郁症。 Indeed, the really sad aspect of his findings is that some of the potential of the Internet has been vastly compromised by the preconceptions and biases inherent in the research of various psychologists and sociologists.事实上，真正可悲的方面他的结论是，一些因特网的潜力，已大大损害了成见和偏见所固有的各种研究的心理学家和社会学家。

There is, according to Kierkegaard actually more evidence to suggest that rather than causing depression, electronic communication is making ties between individuals stronger and facilitating the formation of new, close and meaningful relationships that would never have existed without technology.目前，根据实际克尔凯郭尔更多的证据表明，而不是导致抑郁，电子通信是个人之间的关系更加强大和促进形成新的，密切的和有意义的关系，决不会存在没有技术。 Of course, there may some susceptible individuals who do suffer problems as a result of prolonged computer use, but it is more likely to be the case that those people would suffer regardless of screen time.当然，也有可能一些敏感的个人谁也遭受问题是由于长期使用电脑，但它更可能的情况是，这些人将遭受不论屏幕时间。 Indeed, for an earlier generation of computer users there was nothing but another computer at the end of their modem.事实上，上一代的计算机用户没有什么，但另一台计算机结束时的调制解调器。 Today, you are far more likely to be interacting with another person when logged on, than a Turing machine.今天，你还远远更可能是相互作用时，另一人登录，比图灵机。

Patrick Kierkegaard (2008). 帕特里克克尔凯郭尔（ 2008年） 。 Is the internet a sad, depressing world? International Journal of Liability and Scientific Enquiry, 1 (4) DOI: 互联网是可悲的，令人沮丧的世界吗？ 国际期刊的责任和科学咨询， 1 （ 4 ）内政部： 10.1504/IJLSE.2008.018284 10.1504/IJLSE.2008.018284