Critical Review relating to Chapter 6 (Offprint 3) 'Making friends in cyberspace', Parks and Floyd, 1996 Internet usage has greatly increased from its origins in the 1960's linking university and defence laboratories to a 'global network connecting between 30 and 40 million people'(Elmer-Dewitt, 1995) This study was conducted to examine the social world that has been created by using internet discussion groups (newsgroups). The study surrounds four questions: 'How often do personal relationships form in Internet newsgroups, who has them, …showed first 75 words of 1528 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1528 total…order to back up the claims that the internet is a social place, further research would be required to seek out those that feel loneliness and isolation within CMC. References: Joinson A and Littleton K. (2002) 'Computer-mediated communication:living, learning and working with computers' Brace, N & Westcott H(ed)., Applying Psychology. Milton Keynes, The Open University. Parks, R & Floyd K (1996) 'Making friends in Cyberspace' , Journal of Communication, 1996, vol.46, no.1, Winter,pp.80-97