Shanyang Zhao and David Elesh in the article “The Second Digital Divide: Unequal Access to Social Capital in the Online World” elaborate upon the two divergent forms of “digital divides” that exist in the modern age (the age of Internet): firstly, the divide between those with access to valued online technologies (prominently Internet), and secondly, the divide between those with access to valued online social networks. The authors argue that the existing researches on the digital divide have mostly focused on the first divide, but the second form of divide is equally important. Hence their article mainly focuses on the second digital divide. Building on the work of renowned sociologists Goffman and Bourdieu, both authors argue that equal access to the Internet does not ensure equal access to “social resources” on the Internet, and access to valued online networks is presently unequal, reflecting inequalities in the offline world. Furthermore, the authors suggest that calling for equal access to the Internet will widen social gaps in society, rather than removing inequalities from the society. Both Zhao and Elesh in their article examined the issue of unequal access to “Social Capital” resulting from “social barriers” that the Internet failed to penetrate. Authors provide a sociological viewpoint of Bourdieu on the issue that states; online world is part of (derived from) real world that is stratified and unequal in distribution of goods and services, hence online world is unequal. The same normative rules “Norms” operating offline world also regulate human contact online, allowing certain individuals to acquire a greater share of valued online network resources. Although, Internet has solved technical problem of human contact over distance but the actualization of ubiquitous human connectivity requires social conditions that Internet cannot provide, that means even if “distance barrier” is removed there exists others barriers that curb the “Co-present” social interaction even by being “within range”. Both authors present their stance by concretely backing it up with appropriate evidence. Various renowned research works and quotations are directly quoted in the article. For example; the “age of Information and communication” McLuhan (1964: 248); world as “global village” Segaller (1998: 359); “technological solution to social problems” Lax (2001:2); concept of “with in range and co-presence” Goffman (1966:17); and “theory of Social Capital ” Bourdieu (2000:171). According to my viewpoint, the advent of technology has successfully eliminated “distance barrier” for access of information and communication; however, it has failed to remove class and social differences between people because these differences provide an opportunity for elites to maintain their domination and power.