I know that people's lack of confidence, laziness, the advantages of technology, and more reasons cause impersonality in society today. People seem to live their lives on the computer with the online dating, AIM, myspace, facebook, or any other ways of "socialization" and lose the connection of talking to people in person. An example: Nowadays boys either dont have the guts or are too lazy to ask a girl out so they do it in a text message or in an instant message. I know that there are some families that talk to eachother online when they are in the same house. Why cant they just talk to eachother in person? I would like to understand why people would develop relationships, communicating through the computer, when they could be out talking to people face to face.
I want to know:

• the many reasons why people prefer other ways of communication other then talking in person or on the telephone
• statistics