Can Facebook help overcome shyness?

The findings, so far, are tantalizing. Recent studies have shown that shy people are spending more time on Facebook than more socially confident people do, and that the shy report higher satisfaction with the service than do others. Shy people even say they develop closer friendships via the network than the non-shy say they do. One study, published in the journal CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking, showed that the Internet and social networks helped lonely children fill "critical needs of social interactions, self-disclosure, and identity exploration.