Science students, for example, sometimes have to spend long hours in the lab waiting for the results of experiments to appear and in the early hours of the morning "the network gives access to people who are still wide awake and will provide human contact."
她以工學院學生為例，常要做實驗的他們，為了等待實驗結果，幾天都在實驗室裡，到了夜深人靜、孤立無援時，發現網路「一片有人醒著的天地，接上線只是要與人接觸的感覺。」