Anna Pickard: "[T]he internet is full of lively minded, like-minded engaging people – for the first time in history we're lucky enough to choose friends not by location or luck, but pinpoint perfect friends by rounding up people with amazingly similar interests, matching politics, senses of humour, passionate feelings about the most infinitesimally tiny hobby communities. ... Whenever this crops up in surveys and conversation, though it's treated with an air of disdain. It's the sense of shock that surprises me, as if people on the internet were not 'real' at all." Read More...