It is my personal belief that the human potential can only be realized by the globalization of ideas. The Internet may be responsible for furthering the fragmentation of society by alienating its individual users. He said that he was addicted , and has forced himself to go off-line. However, based on my personal experience I can understand how, as they surf the Web some folks might be confronted with cognitive overload . Some would argue that the virtual existences created by some users who debate, shop, travel and have romance on line are in fact not real.