Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie
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In a very literal sense, the whole world's a stage for them.
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These teens were born into a digital world where expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each other and lots of strangers,
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It's clear that the Internet is being woven into people's most important relationships.
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Aristotle made the statement that humans are social animals. We like to see each other, know what each other is doing and share with each other. That yearning for connection has driven the rise of the Internet.
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What's changed is the consumer is much more anxious to get the material they want, when they want and on the device they want it on.
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E-mail is a tool that many people now use to deepen and improve their ties to family and friends. Use of the Internet actually enlarges and enriches most users' social worlds. And that is particularly true for women.
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As the mobile phone becomes an ever-more essential communications tool, we are beginning to get measures on some important societal impacts. The cell is playing a key role in our daily lives, whether it's used for emergencies or as the primary technology for our most basic interactions with others.
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At the market level, this means old business models are in upheaval. At the legal level, this means the definition of property is up for grabs. And at the social level, it means that millions of those inspired to create have a big new platform with which they shape our culture.
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That's just a reflection of a change in the online population. The typical user is no longer a young, white man, highly educated with lots of money. The Internet population is now more like America.
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This is a pretty interesting and new passion for teens. Anybody who has thoughts or interesting things to say or a beef with the world can use this incredibly powerful publishing tool.
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It was a huge increase on top of a pretty large base to begin with.
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The spectrum runs from the completely debauched, awful kind of stuff, to the most high quality, high tone stuff.
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One is that people are just too busy. When it comes to the ranking things they actively do in their life, making sure their job situation and their household situations are in good order is a higher priority than going out and looking for dates.
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The definition of dating has changed. Activities that people would have called dating in the 1950s, '60s and even the '70s, no longer seem like dates for modern daters. People today, especially young people, travel in groups and hang out in groups. They don't call it dating.