Breaking Free of the Web

I am afraid that my review of this reading will come across as exceedingly negative. While I read several similar concerns that I share with the authors, I was disapponted in the lack of scholarship. Thirteen references fo rht entire book not only prevented me from further study, but left me feeling that the book was anectodtal. I also felt that the book was very repetitive and filled with Church propaganda.

That said, I am abundantly aware of the dangers that lurk on line. I would classify three of y family members as Internet addicts. They do not fall into the cyber porn and sex chat rooms that Young and Klausing seemed obsessed with, but do place connectivity above most other things including family. As such I connected sections of the book such as pp 11-15, 66-67.

I was also hoping that they would delve deeper into what is now my new obsession with identity development, human relationship and intimacy and how these processes differ between online and offline existence. Young and Klausing state many of my concerns/questions almost verbatim on pp126-128, and do reference the work of Erik Erickson. While I have not had the time to reference this work directly, I did take time to begin a rather elaborate lit search on this topic and came across some interesting abstracts. Let's see if the library can get them for me.