More on Digital and Not so Digital Natives

More on one of our favourites … Young People, the Net and the Real World - today's Guardian is reporting on a new Shanghai initiative of providing shelters for young Internet Addicts. Whilst first giving voice to people blaming all sorts of psychological ills on the Net, the article says it all in the end - surely the main issue here is a 'less than satisfactory' offline world which makes young people seek refuge in the virtual -rather than an inherent problem with the Internet… By the way … when I was in Shanghai last month I noticed these two girls on the Bund who had at least temporarily abandoned the Internet and found a big new loving friend in 3-D…