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Every month 800,000 young people in the US enter the teen age bracket and join a constantly changing teen population numbering 33.9 million, the largest teen group ever. Of that group, 83% are online. And they have tons of cash, lots of information, and some pretty bold ambitions. The new American Dream? It includes a huge house AND Angelina Jolie virtues. Probably before age 30 if possible... -
2voteTherefore, here are twenty-five perspectives on online social networking...I have touched upon many of these perspectives during my research, but some of the views are still to be explored. However, I must say that I certainly do not agree with all of the mentioned perspectives, but some of them do represent the opinions (or prejudices) I hear when I am out giving lectures to adults.
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1voteA new social networking craze has hit the Internet: faith-based social networking sites, which have emerged as alternatives to popular, general social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
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1voteIf they're like the rest of 17-to-25-year-olds surveyed by Youth Trends, they likely spent part of that time on Facebook. The social networking site topped the list of favorite sites in Youth Trends' most recent quarterly survey, and it is now the first choice of nearly 70% of females ages 17-25.
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2vote(CNN) -- For some, it's chocolate. For others, it's coffee or cigarettes. But as this Easter approaches, some young and devout Christians are anxious to return to what they gave up for Lent: Internet sites Facebook and MySpace.
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1voteFacebook and other social networks like MySpace have transformed the social lives of teenagers in many ways, and that includes how they make the transition from high school to college. Hundreds of colleges have their own Class of 2011 groups on Facebook. They are generally not formally affiliated with the universities and are begun by students who want to connect with classmates months before they
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3voteWriting an article about how I had no friends on Facebook may seem like a shameless ploy to collect hundreds of them. But even though it sounds disingenuous, I assumed maybe a dozen people of Facebook age would read my article from last week, "Facebook for Fiftysomethings," and "friend" me. But I now have, oh, 775 friends.
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2voteWalk on a college campus these days and you'll see cellphones everywhere, but only some being used for conversations. University of South Florida sophomore Nate Fuller routinely uses his cellphone equipped with GPS to find recruits with his intramural football team... these under-25s are using MoSoSo.
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1voteOn Google's social networking service, Orkut, Indians are organizing themselves by caste. (Thanks to DesiPundit for the tip.) There are hundreds, maybe thousands of groups devoted to every caste, subcaste and sub-sub-caste that exists in India's phenomenally splintered and complex caste system. If, like a typical liberal, you are made uncomfortable by the implicit inequities of caste divisions, th
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1voteAn estimated 43 percent of Americans who belong to online communities say they feel just as strongly about their virtual worlds as their real-world counterparts, according to the USC Annenberg Digital Future Project, which released Wednesday its sixth annual report examining the Web's impact on society.
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