Review: Don't Log Off, BBC Radio 4Don't Log Off, BBC Radio 4
"Alan Dein discovers the real life stories behind on-line profiles via Facebook and Skype. Alan locks himself away for a week to talk to people on the Internet. He starts with nothing, just an on-line profile which says 'talk to me'. The results are intriguing, funny and often very moving."

Asked to review this, I almost said no;  Dein crosses continents and time-zones to engage new Internet 'friends' on Skype and by telephone. Previously, Dein presented Don't Hang Up, in which he called public phone boxes around the world to see who picked up.

This programme didn't do anything to change the view of the Internet as a home for the sad, the lonely, the isolated and counter to the objective, the disconnected. It didn't move me much further than to depress me. Read more of this post