“Worldwide Epidemic of Shyness”
“Email, text messaging, cell phones and iPods along with PC’s are causing a 
global epidemic of shyness,” reports Australia’s Sunday Telegraph. According to psychologist and Harvard Business School researcher Robin Abrahams, who is conducting a case study on the Worldwide Epidemic Of Shyness, she reports shyness in social situations now affects about 50% of the population, which represents a significant rise over past levels.
“Technology is enabling us to opt out of difficult situations and causing people to 
become more insular,” says Abrahams. “What we have is an increasingly complex social environment, combined with less practice at dealing with it because of technology. People . . . email or text one another rather than talk. ”
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Excerpts of this article are also posted in the June 2008 issue of Awake! magazine, page 30. This subject sure is getting a lot of press. Download the MP3 podcast here.