I am not sure that Internet make easier socialization.Take example.Relationships,is true you can obtain a lot of information of people in world.Facebook could etablish a friend in Alaska or in China,even a amazone native.But facts os real social bounds are more complex to establish.Idiom ,culture,fisical distances,make every people a all and tiny individual world.My experience is a virtual relationship dont work.
Other issue,financial world.Web has made more easy money circulation but more complext o manage and undersand.The actual financial crisis is in this way.Try to understand why the economist predictions dont work.Or if yout money is sure in the next bank.Either were yout money is this moment.All this actions induces
a highest isolation of every human being.But betewen a man and institutions are a empty place.Is nos a state who rules relationships are a dark area in were are no responsabilities of any institution.So individual also dontbelieves that he has any be responsability in social problems.Mc Luhan said that mass media are a kind of extension of human faculties.Internet is a second brain.But only to gather or distribuites information.Computers dont thinks,less make afectives bonds.Besides at the web you must left o central component of humanity,if you coul call your soul most afective world.In moyen age I am not sure if the relationships betewen human beings were less socialized.But socialization always begin and end in a face to face contact.The only merit of Internet is made information more democratic but dont say nothing about true relationships.I see a very economicist bias in the statment that believes that Internet has increase the socialization.That is not true.