Does the internet brings us closer or drive us apart

Today I read an article by Ashely Dihn.Now they are a lifestyle. People choose the Internet over talking in person, or on the phone. People will sit in front of their computers all day, instead of going outside, getting fresh air, exercise, and seeing their peers in person.
That lots of people commmunicate in internet or differents pages but they dont now the important to give information to people that you dont now.
My opinion is that you could enter to internet and when someone tell you something bad or you receive somethigs bad the online thin you need to turn the computer off and delit that person that make that thhings.
When someone tell you that you need to delait that page of internet and never enter there . But sometimes The internet could be very good because there you could meet people make friends and meet everybody.

I think that people have facebook and msn because they could