how does the Internet alter our social lives?

http://pewinternet.org/Static-Pages/Series/Social-impact-of-technology.aspx?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=pip&utm_campaign=twitter

"The findings presented here paint a rich and complex picture of the role that digital technology plays in people’s social worlds. Wherever possible, we seek to disentangle whether people’s varying social behaviors and attitudes are related to the different ways they use social networking sites, or to other relevant demographic characteristics, such as age, gender and social class."

These surveys indicate that people who use social network sites are in real life more social and more trusting than those who don't. Again, we see that the initial predictions that the Internet would isolate people socially have been refuted.