However, the face-to-face oriented participants had substantially
more offline friends, on average, than either other group.
Participants who drew friends exclusively from offline associates
had only about half the number of friends, all told, than the other
two groups, whose total number of friends did not significantly
differ. A similar pattern of group differences was observed regarding
number of hours spent online at home and preference for
online communication. The groups did not differ in levels of
self-esteem, but, consistent with our expectations, the Internet
addiction score was significantly higher among Internet-oriented
than face-to-face oriented participants, who had higher scores than
the exclusively offline group members.