If people were not communicating via computer, they would most likely be engaged in activities that create stronger social bonds. Face-to-face communication is more likely to contribute to the creation of social bonds than is anonymous communication. It is desirable that new social bonds be created to replace the ones that have dissolved. A general trend of modern life is to dissolve the social bonds that formerly connected people.
Samuel: Because communication via computer is usually conducted privately and anonymously between people who would otherwise interact in person, it contributes to the dissolution, not the creation, of lasting communal bonds. Tova: You assume that communication via computer replaces more intimate forms of communication and interaction, when more often it replaces asocial or even antisocial behavior.
On the basis of their statements, Samuel and Tova are committed to disagreeing about which one of the following?