According to the head of the Catholic Church in England, good Catholics ought to email, text, and partake in social networks less. According to Archbishop Vincent Nichols, relationships exclusively built around technology and the web are considered “transient relationships,” where numbers of connections on MySpace and Facebook matter more than the quality of said connections, may lead to suicide.

The Archbishop says, “”I think there’s a worry that an excessive use, or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we’re losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that’s necessary for living together and building a community.” In addition, excessive use of electronics communications may be “dehumanizing,” leading some to lose the ability to decipher non-verbal communications skills such as body language interpretation.

Good Catholic readers of pocketnow.com, are you in danger of the dehumanizing communications practices? Chime in!

(via: Engadget Mobile)