None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick.

How well you do in life shouldn't depend on how well your parents did.

What really matters from the point of view of social capital and civic engagement is not merely nominal membership, but active and involved membership.

Positive people have more friends which is a key factor of happiness and longevity.

None of the people watching 'Big Brother' will bring you chicken soup if you get sick.

Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives...Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

Social capital may turn out to be a prerequisite for, rather than a consequence of, effective computer-mediated communication.