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[jasonlulu_2000]

This is not, of course, to say that the internet doesn't serve a socially valuable function. Of course it does. But the question is not that it allows you to increase the size of your social circle to include the rest of the world, but that you can keep your relationships with your existing friends going even though you have to move to the other side of the world.


What does the underlined sentence mean? Can any native rewrite it in a simpler way?

Thanks

Jason

[CP]

First, the passage isn't very well written. It's easy to write something muddy, but hard to write something clear. The first sentence has too many negatives to be clear, and the third one is not well thought out--I mean, it doesn't really concern a question, so it leads the reader astray.

(Why am I so critical tonight?)

Here is what the third sentence means, or at least what I think the author was trying to convey: The important thing about the Internet is not that it can connect you with virtually everyone else on Earth, but that it allows you to stay connected to your true friends no matter where they may be.
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