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... The mobile phone, by facilitating therapeutic gossip in an alienating and fragmented modern world, has become a vital social lifeline, helping us to re-create the more natural communication patterns of pre-industrial times.
Key findings:
Mobile gossip is good for us
Gossip is the human equivalent of social grooming among primates, which has been shown to stimulate production of endorphins, relieving stress and boosting the immune system. ... Mobile gossip is an effective and important new stress-buster.
Mobile phones are the new garden fence
The space-age technology of mobile phones has allowed us to return to the more natural and humane communication patterns of pre-industrial society, when we lived in small, stable communities, and enjoyed frequent grooming talk with a tightly integrated social network.
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