Which detail from the text best supports the main idea that the isolation that
the Internet offers teenagers prevents them from developing the social
skills necessary for a healthy and successful future.
"Marcus is a child of the Net, where everyone has a pseudonym,
telling a story makes it true, and adolescents create older, cooler,
more socially powerful selves any time they wish." (Paragraph 11)
"As Prof. Robert Kraut, a Carnegie Mellon researcher, told me
recently, such people allowed low-quality relationships developed in
virtual reality to replace higher-quality relationships in the real world."
(Paragraph 8)
"teenagers nowadays are both more connected to the world at large
than ever, and more cut off from the social encounters that have
historically prepared young people for the move into adulthood."
(Paragraph 4)
"Marcus did not feel the least bit guilty, and wasn't deterred, when
real-world lawyers discovered his secret and accused him of being a
fraud." (Paragraph 10)