Analytical summary of “Online risks: from cancer to autism?”

Clare Murphy is the author of an article “Online risks: from cancer to autism?” found on the official BBC Internet site http://news.bbc.co.uk. In the article author writes about online networking and what main problems does it cause.

In the article author claims that social networking sites are mainly popular between young people. Clare Murphy states that lack of direct contact with a person may be the cause of serious health diseases. Author emphasizes the fact that online networking helps people who have cancer, autism, ADHD to improve the quality of their life by making with other people online.

In conclusion, this authors article is an introduction of understanding how online networking works and what are the merits and demerits of it.

Average happiness

The word “happiness" has its definition. Happiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. But is it possible to measure happiness? And if it is, what would be average happiness?

Firstly, if happiness could be measured with certain measurements it would be confusing. For example, if a happy person is asked how happy he is, he would probably tell something like “very happy”, “not too happy”. But if you tell that person to measure his happiness, he would be confused. Can you imagine him saying something like I’m 3,8 measurements happy?

Secondly, people individually measure happiness. A poor person may get happy if gets some money, as for a rich one, he would something else to become happier. The individual measurements differ because of our age, sex, cultural and social status, religion and so on.

In conclusion, measurement of happiness is a quite indefinite thing, let alone average happiness which is, in my opinion, an impossible thing to measure.