Aboujaoude thinks the Internet harms us, while McGonigal (as we have seen) thinks the opposite. "If Aboujaoude is the Internet's Hobbes, McGonigal is its Rousseau."
Kickstarter and other sites allow people to donate money to artists, etc. It may be an example of how virtual communities function with real-world matters.
On Jan. 25 a bill was introduced in the Senate to allow the President to shut down the Internet in an emergency. This article discusses shutdowns in Egypt, China, Nepal, Tunisia, Iran, Thailand, and North Korea.
Mobile phones have many useful apps in poor countries, including verifying safety of medicine, assisting trade, enabling "crowdvoicing" and creating branchless microbanking systems.
People used to use the Internet to try on personalities and express themselves freely. Now it may be a corporate trap. Social robots sometimes supplant people. The author comments on "the banalities of electronic interaction" and how we don't interact in meaningful ways. However, some studies have shown than facebook users, for instance, have greater social capital.