The document summarizes the findings of a survey about the future impact of the internet on social relations. The majority of experts surveyed believe that:
1) The internet will have a mostly positive impact on social relations over the next decade by enabling new opportunities for communication and connection through tools like email and social networks.
2) While the internet can enable both positive and negative social effects, its lowering of barriers to communication like cost, geography, and time will allow people to cultivate more social ties.
3) Some risks include the internet enabling shallow relationships and the isolation of views, but most experts are optimistic about the social benefits of new communication technologies.
Negative impacts of social media as my space and facebook on teenagers in th...GeorgeDolezal
This document discusses the negative impacts of social media like Facebook and MySpace on teenagers in the U.S. It finds that over 93% of teens aged 12-19 use the internet regularly and 73% use social media. The biggest effects identified are limited self-regulation, susceptibility to peer pressure, expression of offline issues like cliques and cyberbullying online, privacy issues, internet addiction, and sleep deprivation. The document recommends that parents guide their children's internet use to help them make safe decisions and ensure online activities are monitored to prevent risks like cyberbullying and sexting.
Social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated those sites into their daily practices. As of this writing, there are hundreds of SNSs, with various technological affordances, supporting a wide range of interests and practices
the effect of social media in our daily lifeSudipta Saha
1) The document is a research paper submitted by Sudipta Saha to fulfill the requirements of the Research Methodology course at American International University-Bangladesh. It examines the effect of social media in daily life.
2) A survey was conducted of 40 AIUB students using non-random sampling. Most respondents were male undergraduate students between 21-24 years who have completed 60-90 credits. Nearly all were members of social media sites, mostly Facebook.
3) The findings show that while social media can have positive effects like increasing knowledge, most respondents felt frequent social media use negatively impacts studies. However, many thought social media can be productively used and increase skills if properly managed.
What is Social Media?Positive Effects/Advantages of Social Media,Negative effects/Disadvantages of Social Media,True research facts,Threats from Social Media,Prevention,Conclusion and Implication
For more information , visit : http://www.computercareer.in/projects-by-cc/
Influence of social media on the academic performance of the undergraduate st...Alexander Decker
1) The document examines the influence of social media on the academic performance of undergraduate students at Kogi State University in Nigeria. It finds that students have high levels of access to social media, especially Facebook.
2) The study also finds that exposure to social media has a negative effect on students' academic performance. Students spend more time on social media than studying, and rely on social media instead of course materials.
3) Based on these findings, the document concludes that social media exposure negatively impacts academic performance for undergraduates at Kogi State University. It recommends that students minimize social media use and focus more on academic activities.
Effects of social networking sites to the academic performance of the dtte st...Catherine Agawin
This document appears to be a research paper that studied the effects of social networking sites on the academic performance of students at the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology. It includes sections on the problem statement, conceptual framework, research design using questionnaires and interviews, statistical analysis methods, results and discussion of findings, and conclusions. The main findings were that there was no significant relationship found between the time students spent on social media and their GPA, and that social media did not negatively affect academic performance when used properly with supervision. The paper recommends that social media can be used to enhance learning if implemented correctly by teachers, and that parents should support internet access for their children.
THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENT...Kasthuripriya Nanda Kumar
This document is a research paper that examines the effects of social networking sites on the academic performance of college students. It begins with background information on the rise of social networking and introduces the research problem of whether these sites impact students' grades. The purpose is to determine this impact through a study of 30 students at Taj International College. A literature review discusses previous research, which has found mixed results on whether time spent on social networking correlates with academic performance.
This document discusses segmenting the health consumer population. It begins by looking at how consumers engage with different online activities and technologies over time, from basic email and search to social media creation and advanced communication. It then examines different types of mobile users and their device usage. Finally, it explores how people access health information online, including through social networks, and how those with chronic conditions use the internet for health resources and support.
Negative impacts of social media as my space and facebook on teenagers in th...GeorgeDolezal
This document discusses the negative impacts of social media like Facebook and MySpace on teenagers in the U.S. It finds that over 93% of teens aged 12-19 use the internet regularly and 73% use social media. The biggest effects identified are limited self-regulation, susceptibility to peer pressure, expression of offline issues like cliques and cyberbullying online, privacy issues, internet addiction, and sleep deprivation. The document recommends that parents guide their children's internet use to help them make safe decisions and ensure online activities are monitored to prevent risks like cyberbullying and sexting.
Social networking sites (SNSs) such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated those sites into their daily practices. As of this writing, there are hundreds of SNSs, with various technological affordances, supporting a wide range of interests and practices
the effect of social media in our daily lifeSudipta Saha
1) The document is a research paper submitted by Sudipta Saha to fulfill the requirements of the Research Methodology course at American International University-Bangladesh. It examines the effect of social media in daily life.
2) A survey was conducted of 40 AIUB students using non-random sampling. Most respondents were male undergraduate students between 21-24 years who have completed 60-90 credits. Nearly all were members of social media sites, mostly Facebook.
3) The findings show that while social media can have positive effects like increasing knowledge, most respondents felt frequent social media use negatively impacts studies. However, many thought social media can be productively used and increase skills if properly managed.
What is Social Media?Positive Effects/Advantages of Social Media,Negative effects/Disadvantages of Social Media,True research facts,Threats from Social Media,Prevention,Conclusion and Implication
For more information , visit : http://www.computercareer.in/projects-by-cc/
Influence of social media on the academic performance of the undergraduate st...Alexander Decker
1) The document examines the influence of social media on the academic performance of undergraduate students at Kogi State University in Nigeria. It finds that students have high levels of access to social media, especially Facebook.
2) The study also finds that exposure to social media has a negative effect on students' academic performance. Students spend more time on social media than studying, and rely on social media instead of course materials.
3) Based on these findings, the document concludes that social media exposure negatively impacts academic performance for undergraduates at Kogi State University. It recommends that students minimize social media use and focus more on academic activities.
Effects of social networking sites to the academic performance of the dtte st...Catherine Agawin
This document appears to be a research paper that studied the effects of social networking sites on the academic performance of students at the MSU-Iligan Institute of Technology. It includes sections on the problem statement, conceptual framework, research design using questionnaires and interviews, statistical analysis methods, results and discussion of findings, and conclusions. The main findings were that there was no significant relationship found between the time students spent on social media and their GPA, and that social media did not negatively affect academic performance when used properly with supervision. The paper recommends that social media can be used to enhance learning if implemented correctly by teachers, and that parents should support internet access for their children.
THE EFFECTS OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES ON THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF STUDENT...Kasthuripriya Nanda Kumar
This document is a research paper that examines the effects of social networking sites on the academic performance of college students. It begins with background information on the rise of social networking and introduces the research problem of whether these sites impact students' grades. The purpose is to determine this impact through a study of 30 students at Taj International College. A literature review discusses previous research, which has found mixed results on whether time spent on social networking correlates with academic performance.
This document discusses segmenting the health consumer population. It begins by looking at how consumers engage with different online activities and technologies over time, from basic email and search to social media creation and advanced communication. It then examines different types of mobile users and their device usage. Finally, it explores how people access health information online, including through social networks, and how those with chronic conditions use the internet for health resources and support.
This document contains a research report submitted by Disha Nihachlani to her professor, Miss Gurpreet Kaur, on her research project titled "Impact of Cyberbullying on Youth in India". The report includes an introduction outlining the purpose and research questions of the study. It also includes chapters on the literature review, methods of data collection which involved both primary and secondary sources, and an analysis and interpretation of the collected data through tables, graphs and charts. The data shows high levels of internet usage among youth that impacts cyberbullying prevalence, with over 65% of respondents reporting being cyberbullied.
Research report on exceesive use of social media lead to mental health issuesHarsh Vardhan
It is a small research on "can excessive use of social media lead to mental health illness". It consists of the tools we used and types of research we used to conduct this research.
This document provides a review of related literature on social networks and social media. It discusses both foreign and local literature on how social networks allow individuals to connect and share interests online. The document also examines how governments and organizations are using social media as a public relations tool to engage with stakeholders.
Cyber harassment is an issue which can affect any internet user regardless of their age, gender or location. This presentation takes a look at what is cyber harassment using examples from #GamerGate
This presentation was developed as part of Curtin University's Power, politics and the Internet course.
(1) The document discusses how social media impacts and is impacted by relationships. It examines different types of relationships like friendships, family, professional, and consumer relationships.
(2) Social media enables new online relationships by overcoming limitations of offline relationships, and can substitute or complement existing offline relationships. It impacts relationship formation, maintenance, and dissolution.
(3) The use and effects of social media depend on the relationship type and phase. It facilitates relationship formation through reduced proximity barriers but can introduce conflicts in long-distance relationships. Social media also redefines what constitutes a relationship.
Debunking the oft-repeated assertion that young people don\’t care about privacy, new research shows that Web users between the ages of 18 and 24 are highly protective of certain information about themselves.
This document is a literature review on how net-mediated technology affects family interaction. It discusses how smartphones have become integral to communication but may be decreasing face-to-face time. The review examines how technology impacts behaviors like social norms and driving, as well as inhibiting real-world interactions through "technoference" as people become distracted by notifications. The literature suggests that while technology connects families, it may also be hindering family bonding through reduced personal engagement.
This document discusses two conceptual approaches - social compensation and rich-get-richer - that have been proposed to explain adolescent online risk-taking behaviors. It summarizes a study that examined which approach better predicts such behaviors using data from the Pew Internet Foundation. The study found that predictors of risk-taking included a lack of extracurricular activities, especially for boys, and infrequent socializing with friends in person, especially for girls. This supports the social compensation approach, which posits that those with less satisfying offline lives engage in more online risk as compensation. The document provides background on the approaches and outlines the study's methodology using the Pew Internet Foundation survey data to analyze relationships between adolescent characteristics and risk behaviors.
This document summarizes research into designing technologies to help older adults create and share digital content in order to forge social connections. It describes a study where older adults aged 71-92 used an iPad app called Enmesh to share photos and messages with each other. The study found that older adults embraced opportunities for creative self-expression and social engagement through digital content production when systems were designed to allow it. Creating and sharing content can help older adults connect with peers in meaningful ways.
This document summarizes research on how technology has influenced human communication and encounters, particularly among youth. It discusses the evolution of communication technologies from newspapers to modern dating apps. Research shows that while technology enables connection, it may also strain relationships by reducing autonomy and face-to-face interaction. Interviews suggest that overuse of technology risks desensitizing intimacy and relationships for young people. The document examines these issues through analyzing smartphone usage, social media behaviors, privacy concerns, and how technology both facilitates casual sex and impacts human interaction more broadly.
Social media is the use of electronic and internet tools to share and discuss information with online communities. Some positive effects of social media include establishing connections with people, sharing ideas and creativity, and accessing information from anywhere in the world. However, social media can also be addictive and negatively impact students' academic performance. It also opens users up to hackers, fraud, and health issues from overuse. Popular social media tools include WhatsApp, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn. Users must be aware of threats like social networking worms, phishing, trojans, data leaks, and shortened malicious links on social media. Parents and users should work to prevent these threats through safety precautions like privacy settings and not sharing personal information
Susannah Fox's presentation to the Health 2.0 Conference on 4/23/09. Participatory medicine is taking hold with both citizens and health professionals. But there are still pockets of people who lack access to the basic technology, lack the skills required to participate, or who may lack the sense that they are welcome.
Cyberbullying has become a significant issue among college students with the rise of internet and social media use. The document examines the influence of cyberbullying behavior on the academic achievement of college students. Studies have found that 8-29% of college students report experiencing cyberbullying. Victims of cyberbullying exhibit negative effects like anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and low academic achievement. The paper aims to further analyze the impact of cyberbullying on the academic performance of college-going students.
Online and offline social networks --use of social networking sites by emergi...Leung Man Yin Daniel
Emerging adults often use social networking sites to connect and reconnect with friends and family from their offline lives. A study of college students' social networking site use found overlap between their online and offline social networks, though the overlap was imperfect. Students may use different online contexts like social media versus instant messaging to strengthen different aspects of offline relationships. The findings suggest online and offline social worlds are psychologically connected for emerging adults as they navigate relationships and identity development.
The Impacts of Social Networking and Its AnalysisIJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) covers all the fields of engineering and science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Simulators, Web-based Learning, Remote Laboratories, Engineering Design Methods, Education Research, Students' Satisfaction and Motivation, Global Projects, and Assessment…. And many more.
Tolerance for Emotional Internet Infidelity and Its Correlate with Relationsh...IJECEIAES
Until today, there is still controversy whether emotional Internet infidelity or cheating is something that can be tolerated. Existing views are diverse, influenced by geographical factors, cultural and ideological backgrounds, as well as biological theory. This present study initially suggested that the higher the relationship flourishing, the higher the tolerance for the infidelity. In an era where monogamous relationships are dynamized by the multiplication of relationship modes through online social networks, this study becomes increasingly urgent, i.e. to recommend a variable capable of providing a buffering effect to the deleterious effect of the infidelity. The study used correlational design. As much as 210 participants (55 males, 155 females, Mage=37.89 years old, SDage=10.870 years) were recruited in the Greater Area of Jakarta, Indonesia to fill out the Relationship Flourishing Scale and Internet Infidelity Tolerance-Emotional Infidelity Subscale. This study found that relationship flourishing and emotional Internet infidelity are negatively correlated (Spearman’s Rho=-0.172, p<0.05) and there is a moderating role of sex (coeff.=0.3481, p< 0.05). That is, those with higher relationship flourishing would have a higher intolerance, especially among men. Such intolerance could lead to marital dissatisfaction and, at worst, divorce. The results of this study have implications for (1) an evaluation of psychometric dimensions of the Relationship Flourishing Scale, (2) the need of proposing moderating variables to be integrated into the correlational model between relationship flourishing and the infidelity, as well as (3) online applications development in detecting and managing the Internet infidelity.
IMPACT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AMONG STUDENTSbhazz
This document provides a literature review on previous research conducted on the impact of social networking sites among students. Several studies found that students spend 1-5 hours daily on social networking sites. While social networking provides benefits like staying connected with friends and access to information, it can also negatively impact students' concentration, behavior, and privacy. The literature review explores both the positive and negative effects identified in prior research studies.
A Study on Effects and Cultural Impacts of Social Networking Sites Among Stud...ijtsrd
The Social Networking Sites are becoming vital part for the Students. Social networking sites offers students to communicate effectively and also very useful for sharing the information. It allows students to easily their own pages in online network of contacts, also called as ˜friends. Nowadays comparing to other communication methods the Social Networking Sites are faster for sharing the information. This research project work œA Study on Effects and Cultural Impacts of Social Networking Sites among Students with Special Reference to Coimbatore City, analysis the Students preference and attitude towards Social Networking Sites especially Face Book, Twitter, LinkedIn and Others. It also focuses on the impact and effects of Social Networking Sites in Students. The findings from the analysis were discussed in detail and suggestions have been given. Mrs. B. Janani | Mrs. B. GeethPriya"A Study on Effects and Cultural Impacts of Social Networking Sites Among Students with Special Reference to Coimbatore City" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd11563.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/marketing/11563/a-study-on-effects-and-cultural-impacts-of-social-networking-sites-among-students-with-special-reference-to-coimbatore-city/mrs-b-janani
Can Internet technology still revolutionize activism?Lebowitzcomics
The document discusses the effectiveness of Internet activism and whether it can truly revolutionize grassroots participation. While early predictions saw the Internet empowering individuals, e-mail petitions are now seen as flawed due to duplication and lack of commitment. Web-based petitions require more initiative but still see limited success. However, the Internet remains effective for mobilizing demonstrations and coordinating mass actions across large areas through easy distribution of event information. Some groups also utilize virtual sit-ins to flood and temporarily disable opponent websites, though such tactics remain controversial.
What are the benefits of including Puzzle activities in your preschool lesson plan?
TicTacTeach is a place where teachers can come to share ideas and inspirations, while enjoying the world's best, most thoughtful collection of preschool resources.
www.TicTacTeach.com.
http://tictacteach.com/puzzles-for-kids/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/570549846518742231/
This document discusses different types of gravy and provides a recipe for pork chops with apple gravy. It begins by explaining that gravy is a sauce made from the juices of meats or vegetables during cooking and is commonly served with roasts, meats, potatoes, etc. It then describes several specific types of gravy including chocolate gravy, cream gravy, egg gravy, giblet gravy, onion gravy, red-eye gravy, and vegetable gravy. The document concludes by providing a recipe for pork chops with apple gravy that includes sautéing garlic and making a sauce from flour, water, applesauce and lemon juice to pour over baked pork chops.
This document contains a research report submitted by Disha Nihachlani to her professor, Miss Gurpreet Kaur, on her research project titled "Impact of Cyberbullying on Youth in India". The report includes an introduction outlining the purpose and research questions of the study. It also includes chapters on the literature review, methods of data collection which involved both primary and secondary sources, and an analysis and interpretation of the collected data through tables, graphs and charts. The data shows high levels of internet usage among youth that impacts cyberbullying prevalence, with over 65% of respondents reporting being cyberbullied.
Research report on exceesive use of social media lead to mental health issuesHarsh Vardhan
It is a small research on "can excessive use of social media lead to mental health illness". It consists of the tools we used and types of research we used to conduct this research.
This document provides a review of related literature on social networks and social media. It discusses both foreign and local literature on how social networks allow individuals to connect and share interests online. The document also examines how governments and organizations are using social media as a public relations tool to engage with stakeholders.
Cyber harassment is an issue which can affect any internet user regardless of their age, gender or location. This presentation takes a look at what is cyber harassment using examples from #GamerGate
This presentation was developed as part of Curtin University's Power, politics and the Internet course.
(1) The document discusses how social media impacts and is impacted by relationships. It examines different types of relationships like friendships, family, professional, and consumer relationships.
(2) Social media enables new online relationships by overcoming limitations of offline relationships, and can substitute or complement existing offline relationships. It impacts relationship formation, maintenance, and dissolution.
(3) The use and effects of social media depend on the relationship type and phase. It facilitates relationship formation through reduced proximity barriers but can introduce conflicts in long-distance relationships. Social media also redefines what constitutes a relationship.
Debunking the oft-repeated assertion that young people don\’t care about privacy, new research shows that Web users between the ages of 18 and 24 are highly protective of certain information about themselves.
This document is a literature review on how net-mediated technology affects family interaction. It discusses how smartphones have become integral to communication but may be decreasing face-to-face time. The review examines how technology impacts behaviors like social norms and driving, as well as inhibiting real-world interactions through "technoference" as people become distracted by notifications. The literature suggests that while technology connects families, it may also be hindering family bonding through reduced personal engagement.
This document discusses two conceptual approaches - social compensation and rich-get-richer - that have been proposed to explain adolescent online risk-taking behaviors. It summarizes a study that examined which approach better predicts such behaviors using data from the Pew Internet Foundation. The study found that predictors of risk-taking included a lack of extracurricular activities, especially for boys, and infrequent socializing with friends in person, especially for girls. This supports the social compensation approach, which posits that those with less satisfying offline lives engage in more online risk as compensation. The document provides background on the approaches and outlines the study's methodology using the Pew Internet Foundation survey data to analyze relationships between adolescent characteristics and risk behaviors.
This document summarizes research into designing technologies to help older adults create and share digital content in order to forge social connections. It describes a study where older adults aged 71-92 used an iPad app called Enmesh to share photos and messages with each other. The study found that older adults embraced opportunities for creative self-expression and social engagement through digital content production when systems were designed to allow it. Creating and sharing content can help older adults connect with peers in meaningful ways.
This document summarizes research on how technology has influenced human communication and encounters, particularly among youth. It discusses the evolution of communication technologies from newspapers to modern dating apps. Research shows that while technology enables connection, it may also strain relationships by reducing autonomy and face-to-face interaction. Interviews suggest that overuse of technology risks desensitizing intimacy and relationships for young people. The document examines these issues through analyzing smartphone usage, social media behaviors, privacy concerns, and how technology both facilitates casual sex and impacts human interaction more broadly.
Social media is the use of electronic and internet tools to share and discuss information with online communities. Some positive effects of social media include establishing connections with people, sharing ideas and creativity, and accessing information from anywhere in the world. However, social media can also be addictive and negatively impact students' academic performance. It also opens users up to hackers, fraud, and health issues from overuse. Popular social media tools include WhatsApp, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn. Users must be aware of threats like social networking worms, phishing, trojans, data leaks, and shortened malicious links on social media. Parents and users should work to prevent these threats through safety precautions like privacy settings and not sharing personal information
Susannah Fox's presentation to the Health 2.0 Conference on 4/23/09. Participatory medicine is taking hold with both citizens and health professionals. But there are still pockets of people who lack access to the basic technology, lack the skills required to participate, or who may lack the sense that they are welcome.
Cyberbullying has become a significant issue among college students with the rise of internet and social media use. The document examines the influence of cyberbullying behavior on the academic achievement of college students. Studies have found that 8-29% of college students report experiencing cyberbullying. Victims of cyberbullying exhibit negative effects like anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, and low academic achievement. The paper aims to further analyze the impact of cyberbullying on the academic performance of college-going students.
Online and offline social networks --use of social networking sites by emergi...Leung Man Yin Daniel
Emerging adults often use social networking sites to connect and reconnect with friends and family from their offline lives. A study of college students' social networking site use found overlap between their online and offline social networks, though the overlap was imperfect. Students may use different online contexts like social media versus instant messaging to strengthen different aspects of offline relationships. The findings suggest online and offline social worlds are psychologically connected for emerging adults as they navigate relationships and identity development.
The Impacts of Social Networking and Its AnalysisIJMER
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) is Peer reviewed, online Journal. It serves as an international archival forum of scholarly research related to engineering and science education.
International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (IJMER) covers all the fields of engineering and science: Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Thermodynamics, Structural Engineering, Control Engineering, Robotics, Mechatronics, Fluid Mechanics, Nanotechnology, Simulators, Web-based Learning, Remote Laboratories, Engineering Design Methods, Education Research, Students' Satisfaction and Motivation, Global Projects, and Assessment…. And many more.
Tolerance for Emotional Internet Infidelity and Its Correlate with Relationsh...IJECEIAES
Until today, there is still controversy whether emotional Internet infidelity or cheating is something that can be tolerated. Existing views are diverse, influenced by geographical factors, cultural and ideological backgrounds, as well as biological theory. This present study initially suggested that the higher the relationship flourishing, the higher the tolerance for the infidelity. In an era where monogamous relationships are dynamized by the multiplication of relationship modes through online social networks, this study becomes increasingly urgent, i.e. to recommend a variable capable of providing a buffering effect to the deleterious effect of the infidelity. The study used correlational design. As much as 210 participants (55 males, 155 females, Mage=37.89 years old, SDage=10.870 years) were recruited in the Greater Area of Jakarta, Indonesia to fill out the Relationship Flourishing Scale and Internet Infidelity Tolerance-Emotional Infidelity Subscale. This study found that relationship flourishing and emotional Internet infidelity are negatively correlated (Spearman’s Rho=-0.172, p<0.05) and there is a moderating role of sex (coeff.=0.3481, p< 0.05). That is, those with higher relationship flourishing would have a higher intolerance, especially among men. Such intolerance could lead to marital dissatisfaction and, at worst, divorce. The results of this study have implications for (1) an evaluation of psychometric dimensions of the Relationship Flourishing Scale, (2) the need of proposing moderating variables to be integrated into the correlational model between relationship flourishing and the infidelity, as well as (3) online applications development in detecting and managing the Internet infidelity.
IMPACT OF SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES AMONG STUDENTSbhazz
This document provides a literature review on previous research conducted on the impact of social networking sites among students. Several studies found that students spend 1-5 hours daily on social networking sites. While social networking provides benefits like staying connected with friends and access to information, it can also negatively impact students' concentration, behavior, and privacy. The literature review explores both the positive and negative effects identified in prior research studies.
A Study on Effects and Cultural Impacts of Social Networking Sites Among Stud...ijtsrd
The Social Networking Sites are becoming vital part for the Students. Social networking sites offers students to communicate effectively and also very useful for sharing the information. It allows students to easily their own pages in online network of contacts, also called as ˜friends. Nowadays comparing to other communication methods the Social Networking Sites are faster for sharing the information. This research project work œA Study on Effects and Cultural Impacts of Social Networking Sites among Students with Special Reference to Coimbatore City, analysis the Students preference and attitude towards Social Networking Sites especially Face Book, Twitter, LinkedIn and Others. It also focuses on the impact and effects of Social Networking Sites in Students. The findings from the analysis were discussed in detail and suggestions have been given. Mrs. B. Janani | Mrs. B. GeethPriya"A Study on Effects and Cultural Impacts of Social Networking Sites Among Students with Special Reference to Coimbatore City" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-3 , April 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd11563.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/management/marketing/11563/a-study-on-effects-and-cultural-impacts-of-social-networking-sites-among-students-with-special-reference-to-coimbatore-city/mrs-b-janani
Can Internet technology still revolutionize activism?Lebowitzcomics
The document discusses the effectiveness of Internet activism and whether it can truly revolutionize grassroots participation. While early predictions saw the Internet empowering individuals, e-mail petitions are now seen as flawed due to duplication and lack of commitment. Web-based petitions require more initiative but still see limited success. However, the Internet remains effective for mobilizing demonstrations and coordinating mass actions across large areas through easy distribution of event information. Some groups also utilize virtual sit-ins to flood and temporarily disable opponent websites, though such tactics remain controversial.
What are the benefits of including Puzzle activities in your preschool lesson plan?
TicTacTeach is a place where teachers can come to share ideas and inspirations, while enjoying the world's best, most thoughtful collection of preschool resources.
www.TicTacTeach.com.
http://tictacteach.com/puzzles-for-kids/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/570549846518742231/
This document discusses different types of gravy and provides a recipe for pork chops with apple gravy. It begins by explaining that gravy is a sauce made from the juices of meats or vegetables during cooking and is commonly served with roasts, meats, potatoes, etc. It then describes several specific types of gravy including chocolate gravy, cream gravy, egg gravy, giblet gravy, onion gravy, red-eye gravy, and vegetable gravy. The document concludes by providing a recipe for pork chops with apple gravy that includes sautéing garlic and making a sauce from flour, water, applesauce and lemon juice to pour over baked pork chops.
This one sentence document provides a credit for an image. It credits Edgar Müller and his website metanamorph.com for the photo European Street Painting.
Evidential diagnosis of inconsistencies in object oriented designsKyriakos Kasis
This document presents an evidential diagnostic framework for assessing the significance of inconsistencies in object-oriented design models expressed in UML. The framework allows designers to specify significance criteria for consistency rules using a formal language. These criteria define characteristics of model elements that would make an inconsistency significant. Belief functions are used to measure the satisfaction of criteria by elements involved in inconsistencies based on the elements' characteristics like genericity, coordinating capacity. The beliefs generated are used to rank inconsistencies to help prioritize their resolution. The framework has been implemented in a tool and evaluated through experiments.
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Fernando 1
Sheehan Fernando
Professor Morrison
English 100
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Technology-Social Aspect
Alessandro Acquisti1 and Ralph Gross; Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook Pre-proceedings version. Privacy Enhancing Technologies Workshop (PET), (2006): http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/papers/acquisti-gross-facebook-privacy-PET-final.pdf
In this journal, the author claims that in recent years, online social networks have realised exponential growth. Many people have access to these online networks which they are using for both privately and publicly. Online social networks such as Facebook may be used for communication purposes when want to deliver information. In this study, two individuals were examined. One individual was exposed to a community which used social networks frequently, while the other did not have any exposure to social networks. During their time in these communities, their behaviour was closely observed. It was noted that the individual exposed to social networks had ways in managing privacy while the other was not interested in such issues. This article is credible in examination of information exposed to social media and how people communicate information due to new technology. There is also evidence that improvement of technology has increased the access of information especially in social media.
Childnet International (2008): Young People and Social Networking Services http://www.digizen.org/socialnetworking/downloads/young_people_and_social_networking_services_full_report.pdf
The purpose of this article is to create a connection or partnership with other people to make the internet safer for children or younger people. The author argues that there is dire need to come up with strategies that ensures children and young people are using the internet positively while taking precautions on potential risks involved. It is claimed that social networking is being misused by young people. Therefore, coming up with practices which guide young people towards the best way of using social media helps in improving both informal and formal context. There is need for collaboration and support among young people because they have the possibility of shaping the world in the future. This document is very reliable as it comes up with strategies to ensure positive use of the internet by young people, while understanding the role of internet in our modern times.
Isabela Granic, Adam Lobel, and Rutger C. M. E. Engels Radboud University Nijmegen: The Benefits of Playing Video Games (2014): https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/amp-a0034857.pdf
The author claims that playing internet games has been very common among young people, especially at adolescent stage. However, psychologists have proved that continuous playing of these games has associated impacts such addiction to internet, depression, and violence. This article outlines that it is crucial to consider both negative and positive effects of wat ...
Usage of YouTube Content among Chennai Urban Women.pdfPugalendhiR
Abstract: The majority of YouTube users are college students, therefore it's critical to understand their usage patterns,
goals, and any potential psychological and behavioural effects. In order to determine the current trends in YouTube usage
among female undergraduate students in Chennai City, this study will examine the devices used, memberships subscribed
to, purposes used, and identity formation time spent networking, negative impacts experienced, and educational usage.
Data from a survey were analysed with SPSS-Statistic 19.0 software, and the findings were compared to the examined
literature. According to the survey, students' YouTube networking habits will eventually win out over parents' and
teachers' attitudes, and although while cell phones are currently prohibited in many college buildings, they will
undoubtedly be utilised in classrooms in the near future. The discoveries provide the current study in this area more depth.
Internet and participatory culture opportunities and challenges-pptArulselvan Senthivel
The document discusses the opportunities and challenges of increased participation in internet culture. It finds that while internet usage in India has grown significantly, with over 100 million users, only 19% of users can be considered truly participatory by creating and sharing content. Younger users and those in urban areas are more likely to participate. The opportunities of participatory culture include user-generated content, virtual communities, and empowered civic engagement. However, challenges include a participation gap among non-internet users and issues around transparency, gatekeeping, and the breakdown of traditional training models with new media.
Shyam Swaroop and Manukonda Rabindranath-Internet and participatory culture-o...pumediaseminar2011
The document discusses the opportunities and challenges of increased participation in internet culture. It finds that while internet usage in India has grown significantly, with over 120 million users, only 19% of users actively create or share content online. New media tools have allowed for more interactivity and collective participation. However, barriers like lack of skills, tools and interest prevent many from content creation. Increased participation culture through the internet can empower users but also raises issues around transparency, gatekeeping and ethics that challenge traditional media forms.
The document discusses a study that examined university students' internet usage patterns and preferences regarding online versus offline friendships. The study found that students primarily use the internet to access social media sites like Facebook. They also found that students mostly use mobile phones to access the internet. Additionally, students reported using Facebook to stay in touch with old friends and finding it easier to discuss topics with online friends compared to real-life friends. The study concluded that there was no significant difference in time spent online between real-life and online friendship patterns.
This document summarizes a study on the effects of social media on youth. A survey was conducted of 52 teenagers to understand their social media usage patterns and perceptions of impacts. Key findings include:
- Instagram and Facebook were the most popular platforms, used daily by 84.6% and 80.8% respectively. Over half of respondents spent 1-2 hours per day on social media.
- Benefits included staying connected with friends/family, entertainment and learning new skills. Risks included cyberbullying, unrealistic expectations, and reduced social interaction.
- Respondents reported both positive and negative impacts on well-being, including increased confidence but also heightened anxiety.
- The study concludes that social media affects youth
Gunalan Ranganahan is presenting a final year project on the negative impacts of social networking. The project will use projection mapping to demonstrate how social networking can negatively impact individuals and society through teasing. Research found that while users are aware of potential downsides, many underestimate the risks or become addicted. The presentation will last 2-5 minutes and use text, images, video, animation and sound effects to metaphorically portray social networking's downsides like privacy issues, stress on families, and addiction. The goal is to educate viewers on social media's realities beyond communication.
The effect of personality styles on social media useKrishna De
This document summarizes a research paper that studied the relationship between personality style (level of introversion or extroversion) and social media use on Facebook. The study found that heavy Facebook users, who spend more than two hours daily on the site, self-reported as being more outgoing and extroverted. The research aimed to determine if and how a person's personality type relates to their Facebook usage behaviors and motivations. Specifically, it examined whether extroverted or introverted individuals used Facebook more and for different reasons.
The document is a research proposal examining the impact of social networking sites on the academic performance of adolescents. It includes an introduction outlining the research problem, literature review on relevant topics, research design using questionnaires and interviews of a sample of local adolescents, and a proposed presentation of findings and data analysis. The research aims to evaluate the negative impact of social media usage on academics, determine influencing factors for student participation, and identify measures to reduce time spent on social networking sites.
Social networking has both positive and negative impacts on young people according to the document. Positively, it allows them to make new friends online and feel more confident. However, parents are concerned it can make young people vain and aggressive by overusing social networks. The document discusses how social networking affects family relationships, friendship, personality development, and emotions. It provides statistics on popular social networks and time spent on them. Both benefits like connecting with others and risks like addiction, anxiety, and low self-esteem are analyzed.
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Project Part 1
ITT-Tech
Shawn Engbretson
The Effect of Internet Usage on Marriage
Introduction
The rapid growth of internet usage over the last two decades has been influencing many aspects of our life and most noticeably the ways in which people communicate with each other. Therefore, it is appropriate to ask whether the growth of internet usage influences individuals’ marital decisions in modern society. This study will concentrate on the effect of the growing internet usage on marriage.
Over the last two decades, the internet has become truly widespread, and there is no doubt that this new means of communication influence and profoundly changed many substantial aspects of our lives. Email usage became standard, online dating sites multiplies, social networks’ popularity has been spectacularly growing, all giving evidence of the of the noteworthy role that online communication plays in our lives nowadays and of the very different opportunities we have now as compared to the situation some twenty years ago.
The young people are the most likely to exploit fully these opportunities, and there are several ways in which the means of online communication may make their life both easier and richer as compared to the generation of their parents. Easier from the point of view that search for a life partner does not have to be only in the real world, but might be countered on the internet. There are enough examples of happy couples that met for the first time on a social network, a discussion forum or other web platform, or who found each other directly through the services of an online dating site.
This shows just how these successfully formed partnerships have changed our lives in a way or another. The study, the effect of internet usage on marriage, would also help shed some light on the effect of the increasing internet usage on the divorce rate. There are certainly many aspects of marriage that internet usage can influence, but this study will concentrate mostly on the beginning of the marital process. It will particularly try to establish if the reduction of search costs, given by the fact that through the internet, more potential partners can be reached in a significantly shorter time, leads people to marry sooner or later.
I chose this study as way of trying to complement the already growing numbers of studies done on this topic both from a sociological an economic point of view. It will primarily be positioned within the economic stream of literature and by doing so; present an econometric approach that makes it possible to ascertain the effect of an increasing internet usage on individuals’ marital decisions. To be able to achieve this using IT as leverage to provide answers to the various questions that arise sums up all the reasons as to why I settled for this topic.
Literature Review
The propagation of the internet and the consequent enrichment of the means of communication bring one of the biggest changes ever t ...
A Study on Gender Differential Factors in Uses of Social Networking Sitesinventionjournals
This document summarizes a study that explored gender differences in the uses of social networking sites (SNSs) among young adults in Bangalore, India. The study surveyed 120 males and females aged 20-35 to identify the most popular SNSs used and how usage differs by gender. It found that both males and females most frequently used Facebook, but males tended to use SNSs more for networking, dating, chatting, and promoting brands/actors, while females used SNSs more for maintaining connections, sharing knowledge, updating locations, and looking for jobs. The study provides insight into how marketing professionals can target digital campaigns based on these gender differences in SNS usage.
This document summarizes research on how characteristics of social media profiles impact perceptions of source credibility. Specifically, it examines how the number of followers and the ratio of followers to follows on Twitter profiles affect judgments of trustworthiness, competence, and goodwill. The research aims to identify factors that influence how people evaluate the credibility of information from social media sources.
This document summarizes research on how characteristics of social media profiles impact perceptions of source credibility. Specifically, it examines how the number of followers and the ratio of followers to follows on Twitter profiles affect judgments of trustworthiness, competence, and goodwill. The research aims to identify factors that influence how people evaluate the credibility of information from social media sources.
Week 6 slides from the class "Social Web 2.0" I taught at the University of Washington's Masters in Communication program in 2007. Most of the content is still very relevant today. Topics: Lightweight authoring, blogs, and wikis
Impact of Social Media among Students’ Behaviors in Tertiary Institution of A...IJSRP Journal
The impact of social media among students behavior in tertiary institution has become worrisome. Social media is a means of connections among people in which they create, share, and exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and network. This craze for social media has led to a host of question regarding its impact among students behavior particularly in tertiary institution. This paper is set to study the impact of social media among students in tertiary institution in Adamawa State, Nigeria. A 5 likert scale questionnaire comprises of 19 questions was used as an instrument for data collection. 300 respondents sampled from 6 selected tertiary institutions in Adamawa State formed the population of the study. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze the data. The study revealed that social media has positive impact as well as negative impact on students behavior. The study further recommended that students need to be trained on better usage of social media so as to minimize its misused, School management should train and encourage students on how to use skype and other video conferencing tools to have discussion with lecturers and group members academically.
Research proposal :-“THE IMPACT OF WHATSAPP ON YOUTH IN BHAVNAGAR CITY” Prakash Bambhaniya
This document provides a research proposal on "The Impact of WhatsApp on Youth in Bhavnagar City". The objectives are to examine WhatsApp usage intensity among youth and investigate its effects on education, psychology, lifestyle and family. The study will use a survey questionnaire with 200 students in Bhavnagar city. The literature review cites several past studies that found both positive and negative impacts of WhatsApp and social media on youth. The proposal outlines the research methodology, limitations, chapter structure, timeline and bibliography.
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The document summarizes the key findings of a survey of 895 technology experts and stakeholders about their expectations for how the internet will change between now and 2020. The survey presented pairs of opposing scenarios and asked participants to choose one. It found that most experts believe the internet will enhance rather than diminish intelligence and knowledge. They also expect innovation to continue surprising users and debates over control and anonymity of the internet to persist.
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This study examined the impact of different types of online content on consumer decision making across various product categories. The study found that expert content, such as third-party reviews and articles, was the most effective at increasing familiarity with products, influencing perceptions of products, and boosting purchase consideration. Expert content performed best across all stages of the purchase process and for high, mid, and low priced products. The study concludes that expert content is the most trusted and influential type of online content for consumers.
Trailing millennials aged 14-24 spend the most time watching movies and TV shows on smartphones, tablets, gaming devices, and desktops/laptops rather than on traditional TVs. A survey found that trailing millennials spend 16% of their movie and TV show watching time on smartphones, 15% on tablets, 8% on gaming devices, and 6% on desktops/laptops, totaling less than the 32% they spend watching on TVs.
Journalist Involvement in Comment SectionsGenaro Bardy
The document discusses two studies conducted by the Engaging News Project to examine the effects of journalist involvement in online news comment sections. The studies found that when journalists interacted with commenters by asking questions and highlighting productive comments, it improved the civility of the comments. Asking site visitors closed-ended questions about the news content prior to the comment section also promoted greater civility. Preliminary results also suggested that asking questions can increase time spent on the news site page, but more research is needed. The report provides recommendations for newsrooms to reduce uncivil comments and potentially increase engagement through journalist involvement in comment sections.
The document summarizes findings from a Pew Research Center survey on social media usage in 2013. Some key findings include:
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- 42% of online adults now use multiple social media sites, with Facebook being the primary platform for most.
- Facebook and Instagram have high levels of user engagement, with over half of users on each site visiting daily.
The document summarizes the key findings of a survey on content marketing strategies in Asia-Pacific brands. Over half of respondents have a content strategy in place, and most others plan to develop one. Budgets for content marketing are expected to increase significantly in the next year. Most content is currently created for companies' own websites and top social media platforms. Brands use content primarily to improve reputation and strengthen customer relationships. However, measuring the impact of content is still a major challenge for many marketers.
A stop motion video was created by filmmakers Landon Van Soest and Paul Trillo to promote Brooklyn Brewery's Mash tour across the USA. Over 3000 still photos around New York City were used to create a stop motion tour of the borough and its places. The video is featured in an article as a wonderful way to discover Brooklyn.
The document discusses global smartphone usage based on a survey conducted in early 2012. It finds that smartphone ownership is increasing worldwide, with ownership rising 10-20% in major countries from 2011 to the start of 2012. People are using their smartphones to access the internet nearly as frequently as desktop computers. Smartphones have become consumers' constant companion, with people using them at home, work, on the go, and in various other locations. The document also notes that smartphone users often engage in parallel media activities like listening to music or watching videos while using their phones online. Offline advertising is found to influence mobile searches, with two-thirds of smartphone users reporting searching on their phones in response to ads seen elsewhere. Search engines are a
This document outlines a new social customer journey framework consisting of 8 phases: Discover, Evaluate, Buy, Access, Use, Get Support, Re-Engage, and Leave. It discusses how social media has evolved the traditional sales funnel model by providing more opportunities for brands to engage consumers at each step. Examples are given of how various brands like H&M, Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, and So Delicious have successfully utilized social media strategies to drive consumers through these phases.
The Social Media Ecosystem Report by IABGenaro Bardy
The document discusses the social media ecosystem and the various players within it, including users, platforms, publishers, operating systems, intelligence/analytics, brands, and measurement. It notes that users are increasingly in control as both content consumers and publishers across many social platforms and applications. However, challenges remain around user privacy, functionality, and connectivity between platforms and applications within the evolving social media landscape.
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France's top brand corporation in 2012 was LVMH with a brand value of €34.3 billion, followed by Total with €14.9 billion, and L'Oréal with €13.5 billion. These three brands along with others such as BNP Paribas, Orange, Sanofi, Carrefour, Danone, Schneider Electric, and Accor made up France's top 10 most valuable brands of 2012 with values ranging from €10.4 billion to €34.3 billion.
The document lists the top 10 brand corporations in Europe by brand value in 2012, ranging from €18.2 billion to €34.3 billion, with the number one brand valued at €34.3 billion.
This document lists the top 100 global brand corporations ranked by brand value in 2012. The top 5 brands are all American technology companies, with #1 having a brand value over €100 billion. Most of the top brands are from the US and are in the technology, consumer goods, and financial services industries. The brand values and rankings saw changes from 2011, with some technology brands seeing large increases while automotive brands decreased in value and ranking.
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Understanding User Needs and Satisfying ThemAggregage
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We know we want to create products which our customers find to be valuable. Whether we label it as customer-centric or product-led depends on how long we've been doing product management. There are three challenges we face when doing this. The obvious challenge is figuring out what our users need; the non-obvious challenges are in creating a shared understanding of those needs and in sensing if what we're doing is meeting those needs.
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How are Lilac French Bulldogs Beauty Charming the World and Capturing Hearts....Lacey Max
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Future of internet socialrelations
1.
The future of social relations
The social benefits of internet use will far outweigh the negatives over the
next decade, according to experts who responded to a survey about the
future of the internet. They say this is because email, social networks, and
other online tools offer ‘low‐friction’ opportunities to create, enhance, and
rediscover social ties that make a difference in people’s lives. The internet
lowers traditional communications constraints of cost, geography, and
time; and it supports the type of open information sharing that brings
people together.
Janna Quitney Anderson, Elon University
Lee Rainie, Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
July 2, 2010
Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project
An initiative of the Pew Research Center
1615 L St., NW – Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036
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This publication is part of a Pew Research Center series that captures people’s expectations for the
future of the internet, in the process presenting a snapshot of current attitudes. Find out more at:
http://www.pewInternet.org/topics/Future‐of‐the‐Internet.aspx and
http://www.imaginingtheinternet.org.
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2. Overview
While they acknowledge that use of the internet as a tool for communications can yield both
positive and negative effects, a significant majority of technology experts and stakeholders
participating in the fourth Future of the Internet survey say it improves social relations and will
continue to do so through 2020.
The highly engaged, diverse set of respondents to an online, opt‐in survey included 895
technology stakeholders and critics. The study was fielded by the Pew Research Center’s
Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center.
Some 85% agreed with the statement:
“In 2020, when I look at the big picture and consider my personal friendships, marriage
and other relationships, I see that the internet has mostly been a positive force on my
social world. And this will only grow more true in the future.”
Some 14% agreed with the opposite statement, which posited:
“In 2020, when I look at the big picture and consider my personal friendships, marriage
and other relationships, I see that the internet has mostly been a negative force on my
social world. And this will only grow more true in the future.”
Most of people who participated in the survey were effusive in their praise of the social
connectivity already being leveraged globally online. They said humans’ use of the internet’s
capabilities for communication – for creating, cultivating, and continuing social relationships –
is undeniable. Many enthusiastically cited their personal experiences as examples, and several
noted that they had met their spouse through internet‐borne interaction.
Some survey respondents noted that with the internet’s many social positives come problems.
They said that both scenarios presented in the survey are likely to be accurate, and noted that
tools such as email and social networks can and are being used in harmful ways. Among the
negatives noted by both groups of respondents: time spent online robs time from important
face‐to‐face relationships; the internet fosters mostly shallow relationships; the act of
leveraging the internet to engage in social connection exposes private information; the internet
allows people to silo themselves, limiting their exposure to new ideas; and the internet is being
used to engender intolerance.
Many of the people who said the internet is a positive force noted that it “costs” people less
now to communicate – some noted that it costs less money and others noted that it costs less
in time spent, allowing them to cultivate many more relationships, including those with both
strong and weak ties. They said “geography” is no longer an obstacle to making and maintaining
connections; some noted that internet‐based communications removes previously perceived
constraints of “space” and not just “place.”
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7. Main Findings: Will social relations get better?
CURRENT CURREN
EXPERTS T TOTAL Tension pair on the future of social relations
N=371 N=895
% 12 14 In 2020, when I look at the big picture and consider my
personal friendships, marriage, and other relationships, I
see that the internet has mostly been a negative force on
my social world. And this will only grow more true in
the future.
85 85 In 2020, when I look at the big picture and consider my
personal friendships, marriage, and other relationships, I
see that the internet has mostly been a positive force on
my social world. And this will only grow more true in
the future.
3 1 Did not respond
Background
Technology experts embrace the use of networked communications technologies and are
naturally inclined to find them to be useful in social relations, so it is no surprise to see the high
level of agreement that the Internet is a tool that gets positive results. Still, quite a few people
took advantage of the opportunity to provide written elaborations in which they pointed out
many negatives, and they shared other incisive observations.
Survey participants were asked to reflect on their personal experiences. Most participants’
enthusiasm for the type of connectedness they feel online is evident, and many told their own
specific and very personal stories in the written elaborations.
In all of the tension pairs offered in the 2010 survey, people’s answers were dependent upon
how they defined the key terms in the question set – in this instance, the respondents’
individual definition of the word “social” was primary and it varied, as expected.
The growing popularity of social networks over the past five years has had a significant impact
on personal and professional relationships and many survey participants referred to Facebook
and social networks in general in their answers. The other most‐often‐mentioned digital
networked communications methods included in the survey‐takers answers were email, voice
over IP (Skype is one example that was used), and text‐messaging.
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9. adapted by 2020 and some will not have.” —Jeremy Malcolm, project coordinator,
Consumers International, and co-director of the Internet Governance Caucus
“The internet is communications gold mine. We can already find people with whom
we've lost contact, communicate with people independent of time zones, hold simple
video conversations, instant-message people. It already allows us to communicate in new
ways. The trend I see only improves with time!” —David Moskowitz, principal consultant at
Productivity Solutions, Inc., and lead editor of OS/2 Warp Unleashed
“The internet has actually helped with human interaction by providing a wider range of
ways to communicate such as Twitter and Facebook. These allow some interactions that
are better not done face-to-face. And the internet frees up more time for social
interaction by making things like shopping faster.” —William Webb, head of research and
development, Ofcom
“This question has been probed since my days on The WELL and ECHO. Most humans
are social. The use of the internet has done a lot to shrink the actual distance between
family and friends and allows an expansion to new cultural experiences. The way we
interact is always evolving and has impact on the drive for knowledge, understanding,
and communication.” —Tery Spataro, CEO and founder of Mindarrays Consulting
“The cost-reduction mechanisms of sites like Facebook now enable me to maintain an
incredibly broad and diverse set of relationships that provide me comfort and
encouragement, expand my worldview, filter information, and give me feedback.” —Cliff
Lampe, assistant professor, Department of Telecommunications Information Studies and Media,
Michigan State University
“The internet breaks the shyness barrier in the beginning stage of every relationship.” —
Jorge Alberto Castaños, specialist in implementation of platforms at Botón Rojo
“If – and I believe this will happen eventually – the tendency to make remarks and adopt
positions you would never consider in person can be overcome, online society stands a
very real chance of taking interpersonal relationships to a level never before possible.
Balancing out the anonymity and lack of physical contact is the ability to mask a
plethora of medical and psychological conditions that until now have proven serious
handicaps to social interaction. No one stutters or stammers on Twitter.” —Robert G.
Ferrell, information systems security professional, US government, former systems security
specialist, National Business Center, US Department of the Interior
“It's now easy for me to find people who share characteristics or interests, whereas for
much of my pre-internet life I mainly felt like I didn't fit in anywhere. Also, it's made it
easier for me to find and interact with many types of people who are very different from
me, giving me a wider range of experience. The classic example of how the net has
positively affected my personal life is Meetup.com. I've gone to many real-world get-
togethers coordinated through that service, and have made many friends that way. That,
to me, blends the best of the net and the real world.” —Amy Gahran, contributing writer at
eMeter Corporation, senior editor at Oakland Local, co-creator and community manager at
Reynolds Journalism Institute
“My husband and I got closer together before marriage because of the internet, we
always remain connected because of the internet and we will be never apart because of
the internet :).” —Maliha Kabani, president, International Sustainable Development Resource
Centre
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10. “Despite the media narrative, cultural relations and social engagement mediated by
virtual spaces is a plus. At a minimum, it is an opportunity for complex dialogue with no
opportunity for physical violence. —Joshua Fouts, leader of Dancing Ink, digital diplomacy
expert, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, and founding
editor of Online Journalism Review
“As my adult children tell me, you never lose touch with anyone anymore.” —Deborah
Pederson, chief Learn & Earn Online Officer, North Carolina Virtual Public School
“Humans are hardwired to connect and relate on a personal level. They need social
validation and group membership. Technology and internet use will support people's
interpersonal and social goals because social needs dominate all others.” —Pamela
Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Research Center, instructor of media psychology at
the University of California-Los Angeles Extension
“As I have been finding for years, internet connectivity maintains, expands, and
enhances friendships: both strong and weaker.” —Barry Wellman, professor of sociology
and Netlab Director, University of Toronto; author of research reports on online relationships
“The internet has allowed for the growth of human connection, an enhanced
psychological intimacy of net friends, that has led to strong and interesting relationships
that form in months instead of years. It has allowed for the opening of dialog, discussion,
and forums unlike anything since Greek times. It has allowed an individual to find others
with the same likes, dislikes, and affinities (good and bad), to add organization where
there was chaos, allowed individuals to face who they are and develop that person. Has it
changed the basic institutions of community relations? Marriage? Hell, yes. For the
worse, no? For the better? That waits to be seen. But it has allowed new frontiers to be
explored in interpersonal ‘relationships’ (I have watched marriages flourish and grow
because of the information the net has given. I have watched marriages crumble because
of information the net has given. I expect that which does not kill us will make us
stronger and better.) The internet and World Wide Web have allowed communities to
come together on politics and issues in ways that would never have happened before. It
has allowed the sharing of group knowledge and consensus in real time. It has been
good.” —Cameron Lewis, program manager, Arizona Department of Health Services
“Facebook is making my internet less about virtual strangers who are friendly to being
more about real relationships with friends. When you are a dog on a social network site
people know you are a dog. Facebook has done this with an easy-to-use interface that
most persons can use. I have been online every day since 1994; it was only with
Facebook in 2007 that I could communicate with old friends online. Facebook made this
possible for them, whereas I would have used anything. Without them I had a lonely
internet. In the future more applications will bring more people together.” —Peter
Timusk, webmaster and Internet researcher, statistical products manager at Statistics Canada
“The tension between the net and social engagement will vaporize in much the same
way that thoughts about the telephone network vaporized and it came to be taken-for-
granted. People do not ask if the telephone is an alienating social force. The phone is a
utility supporting social life. Likewise, the net will come to be assumed as a utility for
social life. How else would I know when church starts, when the game begins, where we
are meeting for drinks, or what the weather for our trip might be?” —Robert Cannon,
senior counsel for Internet law, Office for Strategic Planning and Policy Analysis, Federal
Communications Commission, founder and director, Cybertelecom
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11. On the other hand, these respondents are concerned that people’s use of the internet for
social connection does not often foster deep relationships of value, and it can be detrimental.
Internet use can be distracting at times, as much as it can be enriching.
“Social relationships cannot improve when people spend less and less time in face-to-
face encounters.” —Luc Faubert, president of dDocs Information, Inc., consultant in IT
governance and change management
“Social networking encourages people to have a greater number of much shallower
friendships. Insofar as online interaction replaces real-world interaction, the internet is a
negative force in the social world. I know what 15 of my friends had for breakfast, but I
don't know whether any of them is struggling with major life issues. If this trend
continues, people in 2020 will have hundreds of acquaintances but very few friends.
However, acquaintancebook.com doesn't quite have the same ring to it.” —Gervase
Markham, a programmer for the Mozilla Foundation since 1999, based in the UK; won a
Google/O’Reilly Open Source Award as the “best community activist” in 2006
“The answer lies in looking at the schoolchildren. I see too many children using the
internet, playing video games, etc., while at the dining table in public. These children
have not been socialised to interact face-to-face. Unless such behaviour is pointed out
and arrested, and they can be pointed out and arrested, the internet and the attendant
activities on it will worsen social relations in 10 years time, when the poorly socialised
children grow up.” —Peng Hwa Ang, dean of the School of Communication, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore, and active leader in the global Internet governance
processes of WSIS and IGF
“I got involved in social networks as an adult. I wonder about younger people who
haven't yet formed a solid web of real-life relationships or learned how to function in a
meat-space social environment. I think there's a real downside there.” —Reva Basch, self-
employed consultant for Aubergine Information Systems; active longtime member of The WELL,
one of the earliest cyberspace communities; author of internet books
“What I already miss the most is personal contacts in the real world. Too much
communications through the internet can damage real quality of life. I fear this will be
worse in 2020.” —Bernhard Adriaensens, professor at Solvay Brussels School of Economics
and Management
“By 2020, norms will have emerged to assist people in recognizing and resisting over
use.” —Robert Runte, associate professor at the University of Lethbridge
Both 2020 scenarios presented in the survey are accurate; new human connectivity through
use of the internet is a blessing and a curse. Some existing research shows that internet use
makes people more of what they already are: If they are extroverted, they can be more so
with tech tools. If they are introverted, tech tools can make them more isolated. And the
context of internet use matters a lot: tech lifelines in one set of circumstances can turn into
tech choke collars in different circumstances.
“Just think of it as new ways to meet – and exploit – human needs.” —Seth Finkelstein,
anti-censorship activist and programmer, author of the Infothought blog and an Electronic Frontier
Foundation Pioneer Award winner
“Two opposing forces are at play: Cocooning and Connecting. Cocooners talk only to
their ‘in’ group and seek little exposure outside. Connectors listen widely and are heard
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12. widely. I think the Connecting energy creates positive dynamics and overwhelms the
Cocooning.” —Jerry Michalski, founder, Relationship Economy eXpedition (exploring “the
emerging order for transformation agents,”), founder and president of Sociate
“Both answers are true. Spending more time online and being more wired to each other
via various devices comes at the expense of real-time, deep, meaningful human
interaction. But, when you're really busy and don't have enough time to see, call or visit
with friends it's nice to use the social networking tools to be better able to keep tabs on
or 'give tabs to' people in your social network." —Joshua Freeman, director of interactive
services, Columbia University Information Technology
“The internet's effect on relationships is paradoxical. It strengthens our relationships with
distant friends and relations through social networks and email, but may damage the
relationships of those nearer to us as always-on technologies and applications eat into
family and social time.” —Mary Joyce, co-founder, DigiActive.org
“Will relations improve? Hell yes, for the smart people who figure out what the
technology can and can't do for them!” —Mike Gale, director of decision-support systems,
Decision Engineering Pty Ltd.
“I could answer either way. I have an expanded circle of social connections, and stay in
touch more. However, I also have less deep connections. It is interesting the number of
developing adults that function well in a keyboard setting while failing at human
interaction (e.g. can message and chat effectively, can't call on a phone or converse in
person).” —Dave McAllister, director, open source and standards (OSS), standards, Adobe
Systems, owner of OSB Technologies
“The post-urban world is a return to the small town online, and the kind of life-long
connections that go with it. For better or worse.” —Alex Halavais, professor and social
informatics researcher, Quinnipiac University; explores the ways in which social computing
influences society, author of Search Engine Society
“The internet has certainly changed social relationships, and will continue to do so, but I
don't think the change is simply positive or negative. It permits relationships that
wouldn't have existed otherwise. It keeps me in constant communication with my sister,
my daughter, and a few friends who live far away. It discourages the intricate, intimate
neighborhood networks that used to exist and I think we're the worse for that. In general,
it's not better or worse, it's different. However, I should say that I wouldn't have missed it
for the world.” —Sylvia Allen, Ebisu Staffing
“The internet has allowed communities of interest to flourish and prevail over
communities of coincidental geographic proximity. While it leads to more otaku
[surfing, playing video games, and watching anime alone] and grownups playing World
of Warcraft, it also means fewer people getting in drunken fights in the parking lots of
bars because they think someone looks odd. Net win.” —Bill Woodcock, research director,
Packet Clearing House, vice president with Netsurfer Publishing, co-founder and technical advisor,
Nepal Internet Exchange and Uganda Internet Exchange
“Certainly both good things and bad have happened to relationships because of the
internet. I believe, though, that overall, the increasing ease of connection with people at a
distance is improving social relations much more than the occasional gaffe or
thoughtless act is harming them. Some discretion about what to do and say online is
necessary, but that's simply a social more that needs to be worked out and understood –
the tools are advancing quicker than the social etiquette around them. There will always
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13. be people who damage their relationships spectacularly, and if the internet were not
available to them, they would do it another way. The benefits far outweigh the
drawbacks.” —Rachel S. Smith, vice president, NMC Services, New Media Consortium
“Once you eliminate outliers and freakish behaviors, the internet bestows tremendous
opportunities for social growth on most people, in most circumstances. The internet
creates a huge range of often-novel choices from which end-users construct their own
adaptive behaviors. The important determining factors in personal friendships,
marriages, and other relationships remain with the individual. Which isn't to say the
internet makes no difference. It does. The internet facilitates anti-social behaviors like
identity theft, and positive behaviors like keeping in close touch with relatives in
faraway places, to such a degree that they become almost unimaginable in the pre-
Internet age. My sense is that, once you eliminate outliers and freakish behaviors, the
internet will continue to bestow tremendous opportunities for social growth on most
people, in most circumstances.” —David Ellis, director of communication studies at York
University, Toronto, and author of the first Canadian book on the roots of the Internet
“A synthesis of early research on this question has shown that, in essence, personal
predilections will be enhanced once one goes online. Those who are social will become
more so, that is, and those who are loners will deepen their solitude. I expect research on
this question to show something different over time. The early question had to do with
the question of whether there were changes in the behavior of individuals when they
went online. Now that digital natives begin and continue online, this is no longer a
meaningful variable.” ––Sandra Braman, professor in the Department of Communication,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and expert on the macro-level effects of new information
technologies
“Context matters. It's not just the internet. It's the pace of change, the pace of life, the
pace of work – all of which are accelerating, in part because of the net. But norms take
longer to develop than technologies. And where you stand depends on your
circumstances. For me, the net is a wonderful learning network and for some it is a
lifeline and for others it is a tether to their boss or a source of harmful misinformation,
disinformation, and distraction. Since when is the world starkly divided into either-or
alternatives? For many, life will be alienated, rushed, and confusing because of their
involvement online. Others will choose or will learn or be trained to cope with dangers
of an always-on lifestyle.” —Howard Rheingold, visiting lecturer, Stanford University, lecturer,
University of California-Berkeley, author of many books about technology including Tools for
Thought and Smart Mobs
“The technology is simply as good or bad as human nature. One has only to look at the
hype around #iranelection to see the capacity for giddy optimism to be supplanted by
calculated abuse of power. The internet can be a positive force for creating reinforcing
social connections, and a negative for abuse of civil liberties and increasing polarization
of opinion." —Perry Hewitt, director of digital communications and communications services at
Harvard University
Geography is no longer an obstacle to making and maintaining human connections. Emigration
experiences are different now when it is easier to check back in with homeland folk. Old
communities and longstanding ties need not be given up when people move to new communities
and create new ties.
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14. “The internet provides a wide range of possible ways to build and further relationships
with people around the world. There's little question that the internet makes it easier to
maintain relationships that might otherwise be severed by distance. I spent half an hour
this morning introducing my new son to one of my dearest friends – she lives in
Budapest, and while she won't get to hold my child for another year, she's going to get
the chance to see him grow up via Skype video. I can't see this making relationships
weaker, only making them stronger.” —Ethan Zuckerman, research fellow, Berkman Center
for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, co-founder, Global Voices, researcher, Global
Attention Gap
“In a globalizing world it is increasingly possible for individuals to keep in touch with
loved ones via technology. In many ways I think communities will still be location-
based, but the ease of providing information and communicating with each other will be
possible on a global scale.” —Janelle Ward, assistant professor, Department of Media and
Communication, Erasmus University Rotterdam
“Fifty years ago emigrants left their family and friends behind. Now people who move
from one country to another simply enlarge their social networks, building truly global
communities.” —Hal Varian, chief economist of Google and on the faculty at the University of
California-Berkeley
“As an Irishman living in the United States for the past seven years, I have experienced
firsthand the changing capacity of Internet technologies to support communication with
faraway family and friends. IM, video chat, and Skype have all made my experience of
emigration very different from previous generations of the Irish abroad. Looking to the
future, I have no doubt that continued refinement of these technologies will continue to
enhance our ability to keep in touch with family and friends from whom we may be
physically separated.” —Andrew Ó Baoill, assistant professor, Cazenovia College, and director
of Scagaire, a public-interest policy group
“My son away at school continues his relationship with his friends and family at home
almost uninterrupted. My son in high school is as close in January to the friends he sees
only in the summers as he is in July. Both have met and befriended people far away from
our home. Sometimes their friends are in our house talking, watching TV or playing
games. Other times they're somewhere else, but they're still talking, watching TV, or
playing games together. They navigate the online social universe as easily as I drive my
well-worn path to the office.” —Walt Dickie, executive vice president of C&R Research
“At a very personal level, the Internet has had a profound impact on my world. I have
had the opportunity to celebrate joyous occasions, share sad news and grieve, and ask for
(and receive) help. As an example, through a ‘friend-of-a-friend’ connection I was able
to find urgent help taking care of my elderly mother (who lives four hours away) as she
was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Given the small town my mother lives in and my
distance from her, I had been unable to find any help at all prior to posting a plea for
help on Facebook.” —Allison Anderson, manager of learning innovations and technology at
Intel Corporation
“The emphasis on ambient awareness of how people in your circle of friends are doing is
fascinating. Some say that too many people are straying away from face-to-face
relationships. I would disagree. The ability to connect through text, pictures, social
networks, and games allows a level of social interaction that we just haven't had before.
It will change the way we use certain tools (such as the phone) and how we connect, but
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15. will allow us to stay more connected to friends and family who are no longer in our local
area.” —Elaine Young, associate professor, Champlain College
It’s not just geography that has been reconfigured in the equation of human connection; the
internet removes many constraints of space and time. Some of the current social patterns that are
evident in suburbia or in workplace offices will not be as much in evidence in 2020 as technology
reconfigures people’s sense of presence.
“The internet is best seen as a reconfiguration of space. The internet modifies traditional
space so that existing places are extended in ways that allow us to stay aware, share and
intersect with people with whom we are not in the same traditional space. The internet is
the opposite of suburbanization: suburbs took us away from other people and locked us
into houses; the internet opens a door from the house into a potentially shared place.
That does not mean that physical presence is not important in relationships. Lack of
physical presence is not the fault of the internet; rather, it stems from the way the world
is configured (globalization, suburbanization, increased population, etc.) predating the
internet. The internet replaced lack of physical presence with social presence.” —Zeynep
Tufekci, assistant professor, University of Maryland-Baltimore County and author of the
@technosociology blog
“The internet will be more integrated into all aspects of our social lives in the first-world
countries. Communication channels that used to be via printed and telephone mediums
will be transported to new online mediums, primarily accessed via mobile devices.
Mobile devices with broadband access will become our primary source of connection;
yet such mobility allows us to greater integrate our access to the web with our day-to-day
‘corporeal’ life activities.” —Clement Chau, vice president at Ponte and Chau Consulting,
Inc., and researcher in the Developmental Technologies Research Group at Tufts University
“By the year 2020 we will have figured out the best use of social networks: liberating
people from offices. We can better use it to facilitate work relationships so that people
might spend more time in the physical presence of the people they love, or, at very least,
in the company of clients rather than in the company of superiors. Almost all knowledge
work can be performed anywhere. There's no reason why social networks can't replace
offices, but a Twitter feed will never replace family, a neighbor, a real community.
Recognition of that essential fact is the first step in using information technology to
better connect families and sow stronger social and community bonds.” —Patrick Tucker,
director of communications, The World Future Society and senior editor, The Futurist magazine
“People live in a blended reality involving online worlds and in-person worlds, and these
worlds will continue to bleed over into each other more heavily.” —Mary McFarlane,
research behavioral scientist, US Centers for Disease Control
“The internet will continue to bring people closer to each other. Instead of one-to-one
relations, we can time-shift core information one-to-many and focus real time on
deepening existing relationships.” —R. Ray Wang, partner in The Altimeter Group, blogger on
enterprise strategy
"When I think of the big picture of social networking from the last decade, I think the
intriguing aspect is how little give-and-take there has to be in terms of social capital. A
decade ago, a finite number of connections and interactions offline meant that there was
actually a high opportunity cost to relationships. We could have deep relationships, but
there was a detriment to other types, even if they were surface or fringe connections.
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16. Now, the social grid gives us the luxury to keep low-involvement relationships – past
contacts, former classmates, etc. – together, but the serious friendships, spouses, those
can continue at their high involvement.” —Dave Levy, senior account executive and media
trend researcher in digital public affairs at Edelman (public relations)
“With the advent of the Web 2.0-enabled social web with applications such as Facebook,
YouTube, etc., we allow all aspects of our lives to be shared with our selected friends
and family without actually having to reach out and tell them what we're up to. By
posting status updates, photos and videos online, friends and family can browse our lives
on their own time and place and as often as they chose to. These technologies all me to
keep everyone in the loop without me actually having to proactively keep everyone up to
date.” —Steve Ridder, enterprise architect, Cisco
“The internet enables people to make more numerous personal connections, revive
relationships, share common interests, and is a conduit where significant relationships
can be supported and sustained. In 2009, UK Research showed that users connected to
the Internet, are ‘less lonely’ than non-users. People are time-poor. The internet makes
staying in touch easy; the sharing thoughts, feelings, experiences richer; and reaching out
for new friendships and interests is a glue that ties us to the global community.” —Sally
McIntyre, principal online adviser in Australia’s Department of Premier and Cabinet
“The key value of the virtual space is its ability to transcend the standard rules of space
and time, and connect that which otherwise could not be connected. This began with the
telephone many years ago, albeit with a very small 'social bandwidth,’ but with the rise
of the internet this social bandwidth has increased many times over, allowing us to add
much more than just speech to our one-to-one connections. As the internet matures even
more, and even greater real bandwidth is possible, so the ability to enrich these
connections can only grow and grow as our social bandwidth grows with it.” —Rich
Osborne, Web manager and Web innovation officer, University of Exeter
Actually, we lose time online – time that could be, should be spent on our relationships.
“The struggle of being present with the important people in our lives will only intensify
by 2020. While I love technology and know that it has expanded the amount of
connections I can have and strengthens certain relationships, I also think that by 2020,
the idea of turning off technology is going to be the equivalent of trying to stay dry when
you are underwater. And I think relationships require uninterrupted time. They require
being present. They require attention. And the more immersive our world will be by
2020, the negative result of this constant interruption with people we truly care about
will be only harder as we are pulled in even more directions. It will be the ultimate test to
see if we can give our relationship what they truly need to grow. Time. Uninterrupted.”
—Tiffany Shlain, founder of the Webby Awards and co-founder of the International Academy of
Digital Arts & Sciences, filmmaker, director of the Moxie Institute
“The internet – and in a larger sense, the harried, multitasking-dependent modern
lifestyle – doesn't generally foster the kind of deep social interactions necessary for
serious relationships. There are exceptions, of course: Witness the (apparent, anecdotal)
success of online dating sites. This isn't to say that social relationships necessarily
require face-to-face interaction. Think of the great relationships of old carried on through
postal mail correspondence. Instead, it's the internet's encouragement of an existence
marked by distracted, ‘continuous partial attention’ (from Linda Stone) activities, and
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17. interactions that is at fault here. For the majority of internet users, the net is unlikely to
help them foster significant social relationships, and as it grows ever more central to our
lives, that's unlikely to cease.” —Christopher Saunders, managing editor, InternetNews.com
“While the Internet has enabled me to keep richer relationships alive over large distances
via tools like IM and videoconferencing, I also find myself deluged with gumption traps
and triviality, which can reduce the amount of time and energy I spend on deep, face-to-
face relationships. I'd say that on the whole, the internet has made my relationships
richer, but it is in no way a replacement for real-life physical interaction.” —Dave Sifry,
founder, Offbeat Guides, founder, Technorati, co-founder, Sputnik, co-founder, Linuxcare, Inc.
It is possible that these new ways to interact will perhaps inspire more tolerance and global
understanding.
“More gradients of friendship are enabled through online social networking, meaning it's
more likely you will retain some degree of connection or friendship with a broader cross-
sector of the population, leading to more harmonious human relations nationally and
internationally.” —Solana Larsen, managing editor, Global Voices Online, former editor of
openDemocracy.net
“There are risks, but the fact that it enables us to escape many of the constraints of
geographic happenstance seems likely to be a net positive, along with our exposure to
greater diversity. The internet should build tolerance through greater exposure and
understanding, and tolerance should improve human and community relations.” —
Jonathan Grudin, principal researcher in human-computer interaction and computer-supported
cooperative work at Microsoft Research
“The internet represents an unprecedented opportunity to improve cross-cultural
understanding and tolerance around the world. We just need to make the infrastructure
ubiquitous and affordable. Perhaps governments should take control of the world's
communications systems (wow) and run them as public services to ensure public access.
The only issue here would be censorship. I firmly believe that differences tend to
dissolve as people come into contact and interact with each other, dissipating
stereotypes.” —Robert Hess, senior fellow at the Center for the Digital Future, Annenberg
School, USC, and president and CEO of TSG (a consulting firm)
“We should hope that the net makes us more connected, more social, more engaged and
involved with each other. The human diaspora, from one tribe in Africa to thousands of
scattered tribes – and now countries – throughout the world, was driven to a high degree
by misunderstandings and disagreements between groups. Hatred and distrust between
groups have caused countless wars and suffering beyond measure. Anything that helps
us bridge our differences and increase understanding is a good thing. Clearly the internet
already does that.” —Doc Searls, fellow, Berkman Center, Harvard, fellow at Center for
Information Technology and Society, University of California-Santa Barbara; co-author of The
Cluetrain Manifesto
“Any facility which brings people together in love and friendship, and enables love and
friendship over greater distances and over greater boundaries, can only ever be a good
thing. By 2020, integrated social networking, cross-national and cross-cultural dialogue,
and internet-enabled friendships will be some of the great arguments for the social good
of the internet.” —Francis J.L. Osborn, philosopher, University of Wales-Lampeter
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18. “The internet allows us to develop a worldwide awareness consciousness. We are still at
the ‘self’ stage, where we want the world to know who we are, but soon we will move to
a we + me stage, where we will make connections that debate, share, and build.” —Brian
Prascak, chief innovation officer, InReach Commerce, Inc.
“The web is enabling ‘connected’ people to have a better understanding of each other
and our unique contexts, which helps communication.” —Paul DiPerna, research director at
Foundation for Educational Choice, conducting surveys, polling, Internet/social media projects
“There will be, of necessity, a greater need for humans to better understand what is going
on in the world and to be ready to influence decisions made on their behalf. The internet
will be the mechanism for allowing the necessary interactions.” —R.L. Monroe, retired
after 35 years in the US Department of Defense
It is possible that these new ways to interact will allow people to silo themselves and incite
more intolerance or dangerously limit people’s worldview.
“The internet helps me maintain contact with a greater number of people. But it also
makes it easier for me to retreat within a form-fitted political, religious, or social
landscape. It's when we find ways to work with people with whom we disagree that
society progresses. The internet makes it easier for me to avoid disagreement and
compromise and encourages me to become more strident and polarized in my views.
That's a problem.” —Tim Marema, vice president of the Center for Rural Strategies
“I'm with the likes of Cass Sunstein (Republic.com /Republic.com 2.0) on this one: The
ability to narrowcast on the internet and the tendency for netizens to hang out
exclusively with their own tribe combined with the literal disappearance of mainstream
mass media will, I believe, be a negative force for all sorts of relations – maybe not so
much family relations, but certainly other social relations. Mass media once served a role
as a kind of community commons where one might be exposed to
opinions/thoughts/events that would enlighten, enrage, repulse, thrill, or inspire you. We
learned about things we would never think of querying a search engine about. I don't see
any site replacing the ‘commons’ role that a community newspaper served. In fact, I
think online publishers – desperate to pay the bills – will use software agents, cookies,
etc., to make sure that their users see exactly what they want to see, and what they want
to see, I suspect, will be information that will tend to reinforce a worldview, not
challenge it.” —David Akin, national affairs correspondent, Canwest News Service
As the use of the internet for social networks expands, the rapid evolution of connection is
altering and redefining many things. “Virtual friends” will become more common in the
future. New definitions of traditional notions will emerge as people recast such ideas as
“friendship” and “privacy.”
“We will have more interpersonal relationships while sitting alone in the room. They
will feel, and be, rich in many ways – other than touching.” —Stewart Baker, general
counsel to the US Internet Service Provider Association, former general counsel for the US
National Security Agency
“There's no escaping people anymore, and I believe that will yield better relationships.”
—Jeff Jarvis, author of What would Google Do? and associate professor and director of the
interactive journalism program at the City University of New York’s Graduate School of Journalism
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19. “New definitions of ‘friendship’ and ‘privacy’ will emerge. Neo-tribalism will start to
replace nuclear families, although this will be considered illegitimate and immoral by
old-timers.” —Stowe Boyd, social networks specialist, analyst, activist, blogger, futurist and
researcher; president of Microsyntax.org, a non-profit and director of 301Works.org
“The way we define the word ‘social’ will have changed, much as how the meaning of
the word ‘friend’ has already changed as we end 2009.” —Neville Hobson, head of social
media in Europe for WCG Group and principal of NevilleHobson.com
“Virtual parties, in which participants ‘hang out’ with friends via video conference, will
become popular as a way for people to get together (and avoid risks associated with real-
life parties, such as drunk driving and STDs).” —Chris Minnick, independent information
technology and services professional
“SNS and other internet-based communication tools have created new social circles and
new categories of relationships, expanding the possibilities for contact and connection.
The depth of these connections generally by platform, location, or group e.g. Facebook
friends are at one depth, connections made through dating sites at another, while in-
person connections are at yet another level of intimacy and relationship depth.” —
Stephan Adelson, president of Adelson Consulting Services and founder of Internet
Interventions, a company that promotes health and patient support
“Ships and airplanes can be argued to be tools engendering either separation or
closeness. Why should the internet be any different? I am continuously amazed at the
ability of people to adapt the net to improve their interpersonal links. My larger concern
is, again, with education – that we need to emphasize the liberal arts, theatre, literature,
and the like so that we can learn how to express ourselves and understand one another.
The art of politics, which I believe will become an increasingly important art as we try to
solve difficult problems, requires considerable ability to express and understand, and to
have empathy with foreign cultures. The net will be a tool, but we need to teach
ourselves how to be good users of that tool.” —Karl Auerbach, chief technical officer at
InterWorking Labs, Inc.
“My guess is that people who only make friends in person will be seen as socially
handicapped.” —Charlie Martin, correspondent and science and technology editor, Pajamas
Media, technical writer, PointSource Communications, correspondent, Edgelings.com
“It's hard to turn down a ‘friend’ request on a social network, particularly from someone
you know, and even harder to ‘unfriend’ someone. We've got to learn that these things
are OK to do. And we have to be able to partition our groups of contacts as we do in real
life (work, church, etc.). More sophisticated social networks will probably evolve to
reflect our real relationships more closely, but people have to take the lead and refuse to
let technical options determine how they conduct their relationships.” —Andy Oram,
editor and blogger, O’Reilly Media
“Deep relationships, the kind that stand the test of time and adversity – will become
increasingly difficult to form and maintain. We will be more connected to the world than
ever before, but in far less meaningful ways. I believe this disintegration of interpersonal
relations will spawn counter-cultural movements that might seriously resemble Amish or
Mennonite communities. These enclaves will appear to outsiders as confused and
befuddled, but will offer their members a rich and rewarding human experience.” —
Daniel Weiss, senior analyst for media and sexuality at Focus on the Family Action
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20. “The quality of personal relationships will continue to be based upon the work people
put into their relationships – not the technologies involved in communications. It will be
possible for people to have lots of contacts with a very large ‘network’ and have very
few quality relationships. This possibility will lead to several new psychological and
medical syndromes that will be variations of depression caused by the lack of
meaningful quality relationships. And it will also be possible for people to have more
quality relationships with a more diverse population – including close relationships with
people geographically and temporally distant. Our notions of household and community
will have to change to accommodate this phenomenon and our laws regarding families
and households will also have to change.” —Benjamin Mordechai Ben-Baruch, senior
market intelligence consultant and applied sociologist, consultant for General Motors
“As people find the balance with online and in-person socialization, the social net will
enhance their lives and bring greater understanding to the world. People will maintain an
‘inner circle’ of relationships that will primarily be in person, while staying connected
with people around the world through various forms of the social net. This will allow the
average person to gain a greater understanding of the world from the eyes of other
average people from different countries and cultures. Governments will need to adjust to
this new world society.” —Tom Golway, global technology director at Thomson Reuters and
former CTO at ReadyForTheNet
There are some ‘digital divides’ when it comes to the new realities for tech‐connected people.
The most obvious difference in the tech realm is tied to age. Younger users are simply
different in their use of tech and their approach to social relations from older users.
“Generation M, born after 1982 – mobile, multimedia, multitasking – are already
showing their distinctive differences. One of these differences is the advent of the
supercommunicator. There is growing evidence that the internet augments physical
relationships rather than displaces/replaces them. We do have to worry about the digital
divide risk though. It is critical that we focus on inclusiveness as we drive this forward
globally.” —JP Rangaswami, chief scientist, British Telecommunications
“For digital natives there will be fewer negatives and more positives than for their
parents and grandparents (digital immigrants). Social life is changing, and most who
perceive a downward trajectory are those who see their own culture vanishing. For my
kids and their friends, social life depends on digital networking.” —Peter Suber, fellow,
Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, visiting fellow, Yale Law School, open access project
director, Public Knowledge, research professor of philosophy, Earlham College
“It has been a positive force only with those in my social circle who have embraced it;
I've met new people and developed wonderful friendships. With those who do not
embrace it, or refuse to, it creates huge conflict.” —Beth Gallaway, library consultant and
trainer, Information Goddess Consulting
“The internet has changed the social communications norm, and people who don't use
the Internet will become socially and technologically marooned. I have met more people
face-to-face as a result of the internet than I did before the internet.” —Robert Lunn,
principal of FocalPoint Analytics and senior researcher for USC Annenberg School Center for the
Digital Future, formerly director of surveys at J.D. Power and Associates
“Using the internet for socializing depends on whether or not you like to read and write.
Some people don't use it simply because they are hunt-and-peck typists, but that will not
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21. be the case in the future. Others just don't like to read or write, and for some of them, the
short communications will be their only use of the internet. For some of us, it is much
easier to express ourselves in writing than it is to talk about issues.” —Sandra Kelly,
market research manager for 3M Company
“The internet enables many new types of communication, and simplifies and accelerates
many existing ones. Misunderstanding these new tools can indeed be very harmful, but
as the technologies continue to mature and be understood be increasingly wider swaths
of the public, most people will learn to use them in ways beneficial to their social life.”
—Nick Violi, research assistant, University of Maryland
“No force can make my kids ‘friend’ me on Facebook. Maybe this is a ‘positive’ in their
twentysomething social world, but it's a ‘negative’ in mine. Maybe this will change
when my kids hit thirtysomething.” —Greg Jarboe, president and co-founder, SEO-PR,
Search Engine Watch Blog, Market Motive, ChannelOne Marketing Group
Criminals, terrorists, governments, and commercial interests may have a negative influence
on the evolution of social networks between now and 2020.
“A number of clear dangers remain, chiefly, the abuse of social media to promote
populist and disruptive agendas and ideologies; the increasing corporatisation and
astroturfing of social media spaces; the exploitation of personal information made public
through social media by criminals and overzealous law enforcement agencies. On
balance, social media spaces and communities have, to date, remained remarkably
resistant to such interference, but there are no guarantees that this will continue. But
social media also enable their users to organise to combat infringements and
interference, and this is a cause for optimism.” —Axel Bruns, associate professor of media
and communication, Queensland University of Technology, and general editor of Media and
Culture journal
“[The positive possibilities] will only grow more true in the future as long as a
significant part of the internet's core remains in the public domain – not the plaything of
purely-commercial interests nor at the mercy of the whims of states.” —David Pecotic,
officer, Australian Broadband Guarantee Policy Section, Australian Broadband Guarantee Branch,
Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy
We are just beginning to address the ways in which nearly ‘frictionless,’ easy‐access, global
communications networks change how reputations are made, perceived, and remade. New
social norms will be encoded eventually to take account of these changing realities.
“For better or worse, reconnecting and maintaining relationships has gotten easy to the
point of nearly becoming frictionless. I do wonder if the American procedure that says
‘Try hard, fail, move West, try hard, fail, move West, try hard, succeed, stay here’ will
change.” —Paul Jones, conference co-chair, WWW2010, clinical associate professor, School of
Information and Library Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, director, ibiblio
“Some people thrive in small towns, others feel oppressed by them. As information
technology shrinks our world, it will become easier for one’s misdeeds to return to them
or for outbursts of regrettable behavior to be reported and shared. It will also be easier
for good deeds to be shared. For better or worse, technology makes the citizenry its own
Big Brother. Some will welcome this as transparency; others will feel oppressed.” —
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22. Stuart Schechter, researcher, Microsoft Research, formerly on the technical staff at MIT Lincoln
Laboratory
“It will be particularly interesting to see how we reconcile things about the people we
know that we had not known in the past, or could not have known. How many of our
friends will in some sense ‘come out of the closet’ on some issue or other by joining a
group on Facebook, for instance, that might make us upset or angry, and what we will
we do with that knowledge?” —Steve Jones, professor of communication and associate dean
of liberal arts and sciences and co-founder of the Association of Internet Researchers, University
of Illinois-Chicago
“It is key that we sort out the sort of contextual self-presentation online that we presently
take for granted offline. This will involve the hybrid of sociological and psychological
insights alongside traditional design. How do we present ourselves to co-workers and
high school friends without pandering to a lame lowest common denominator? In doing
so, I think we can strengthen our relationships by creating increased spaces for
differentiated expressiveness. I worry about absolute searchability, however, as I think it
will draw people away from the Internet as a positive force. It will tie us together, but I
think it will also make our relationships a little more dull.” —Bernie Hogan, research
fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
“A lot depends on our success at the societal level in addressing online disinhibition,
modeling online/offline citizenship for our children, and getting past the adults'
technopanic to teaching tech literacy, media literacy, and social literacy at home and
school.” —Anne Collier, co-chair, Online Safety & Technology Working Group, founder of Net
Family News, co-author, MySpace Unraveled: A Parent’s Guide to Teen Social Networking
“As a society we will grapple with how to best use these tools to strengthen human-
based social ties – and some will be better at it than others. Issues like privacy will need
to be addressed, but individual and structural strategies will emerge.” —Jim Witte, director
and professor, Center for Social Science Research, George Mason University
“Those who do adopt social media will prefer and demand transparency in their dealings
– or become more sophisticated and deliberate about what they publish online about
themselves and about others. When Facebook is apparently connected to 60% of
divorces these days
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/Facebook/6857918/Facebook-fuelling-divorce-
research-claims.html), it's clear that both access to ‘temptation’ as well as the
transparency that Facebook brings is causing people to confront issues that they
previously were able to ignore or squirrel away. I think that's a good thing, and healthy
thing. I think there's often too much distortion in people's relationships today. Still, the
question remains: are we ready for a transparency society? And, how will we cope with
those who share a lot about others, but not about themselves? Perhaps people will self-
select and naturally gravitate towards people who have similar sharing tendencies.
Others may rebel and head towards one of the two extremes. Still, the basic fabric of
human connections is being enhanced through openness and transparency even if it's
unclear how this will all play out over the next 10 years.” —Chris Messina, open web
advocate, Google, board member, OpenID Foundation
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23. Leveraging the internet to cultivate social connection exposes private information. Thus,
there will be new incentives for people to stratify their social networks so that the
appropriate personal disclosures are made to the right people.
“People will start being less forthcoming with their personal information online due to
privacy/marketing fears.” —Michael Zimmer, assistant professor of media, culture and
communication, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“The internet enables personal ‘customer-relations management’ on multiple
simultaneous levels. The more we use social media, the more sophisticated and
discerning we'll become in structuring access, privacy, and content access. But the
internet will be a central time and contact management tool into the indefinite future.” —
Daniel Flamberg, blogger at iMedia Connections and senior vice president of interactive
marketing at Juice Pharma Advertising
“Social relations will stratify into very distinct circles or 'orbits': Current face-to-face
family and friends, distant family and friends well known (previous face-to-face
relationship), acquaintances (briefly known), and then cyber relationships. Cyber
relationships (friends, fans, followers, followed, connections, etc.) overlay the real-world
relationships, for better or worse. But the most important thing they bring is exposure to
a wider circle of potentially relevant people. This is in exchange for a potential loss of
personal privacy and public image. Generally speaking, I believe the gains of great
exposure and discovery of new cyber-relationships that then grow into face-to-face
relationship that are productive and rewarding will continue to be a benefit of the
internet.” —William Luciw, managing director at Viewpoint West Partners and director at Sezmi,
Inc., formerly a director of products and stand–up philosopher at several other Silicon Valley
companies
“By 2010 privacy as it had been known for the previous 100 years was gone. Everything
that could be known about personal life was known through either voluntary sharing by
increasingly transparent generations of humans or invasive external forces (government,
business, religion, health care, and other humans known and unknown). Personal life
will both be enhanced and deterred by the omnipresence of computing capability. All
personal decisions will be recorded somewhere. The ‘unseen force’ will always be
present as a third party in all relationships. Between 2010 and 2020 revelation of this fact
will make its way into the normative structure of human social life.” —Stephen Steele,
professor, sociology and futures studies, Institute for the Future, Anne Arundel Community College
“It will become difficult to hide and be forgotten, which is rather scary. We will learn to
value our privacy.” —Charlie Breindahl, webmaster and lecturer, Danish Centre for Design
Research
Advances in technology between now and 2020 will continue to extend social possibilities.
Most of the change will occur in social networks with relationships that are more casual and
weaker – not among those with the strongest personal ties.
“The development of holographic displays and the bandwidth necessary to carry them
will allow us to spend more time in more contexts with our friends.” —Fred Hapgood,
technology author and consultant, moderator of the Nanosystems Interest Group at MIT in the
1990s, writes for Wired, Discover and other tech publications
“Social networking has had a very positive impact on my social life in that it has allowed
me to remain in touch and reconnect with friends and family in a way that otherwise
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24. would not happen. Being able to take a peak into their daily lives, maintain accurate
contact information, and share snippets of our lives through photos, video, etc. has been
very positive. Improved broadband and other technology will allow us to take these
social networks to new levels with more multimedia tools that make these connections
more personal.” —Jamie Wilson, writer/journalist and web application developer
“In general we have three circles of friends and family: immediate (siblings and best
friends), social (neighbours, bowling league, etc.), and collegial (business associates, co-
workers, etc.). While the internet has had little impact on the first two circles, it has had a
huge impact on third circle of collegial acquaintances. The impact has been so great that
we desperately need tools like MIT's Sixth Sense to keep track of all these contacts when
we meet them in the real world.” —Bill St. Arnaud, chief research officer at CANARIE, Inc.,
and member of the Internet Society board of trustees
“By 2020, individuals and organizations will have available highly secure and trusted
quantum/biometric security plus powerful collaborative visualization decision-based
tools plus powerful new tools to create user-generated content plus
permanent/trusted/unlimited cloud archive storehouses plus incentive and attribution
mechanisms. Friends, communities, and like-minded strangers will collaborate to solve
the world's pressing problems, explore new frontiers, create entertainment spaces, and
become more intimate. Today's social networks are decrepit in that they are intrusive,
trust-levels concerning security and privacy are still questioned, they provide paltry few
tools to encourage collaborative problem-solving, advocacy or entertainment creation
and have no ways to incent or attribute participants in such endeavors. That will all
change significantly by 2020. Intimacy will dramatically increase as collaborators solve
problems and are incented and respected as contributors.” —Steven G. Kukla, product
planner, shared no additional work details
“By 2020, the concept of building and nurturing relationships outside the physical realm
will be fully integrated into human behavior. To our advantage, this web-based social
structure will be free of the novelty that drives today's practitioners to obsessively text,
twit, and gather. In place of manic distraction, the employment of audio-visual internet
connections will gravitate toward balance and practicality.” —Ebenezer Baldwin Bowles,
founder and managing editor of corndancer.com, an independent online journal and cyber
community, writer, activist and teacher
“Over the last 20 or 25 years of participation in online communities, I've found the
connectedness to be a great equalizer, removing socioeconomic status bars and
permitting instantaneous communication and sharing of media with anyone who shares
an interest. I see no reason to think that the flow will be reversed in the next 10 years, or
in the decade after that. Today's trend of email replacement by messaging (think Twitter
and SMS) will continue, although email will still be useful for file sharing and
interpersonal correspondence. I hope that the walled gardens like Facebook will have
passed away, and that open networks of friends and colleagues will be enabled by
semantic web tools in public-domain services.” —Frank Paynter, Sandhill Technologies,
LLC
“Nothing ever competes with ‘personal’ interaction. Face-to-face, but visual and virtual
communications will leap far beyond the klunky and kludgy communications methods
now in place.” —Dean Landsman, president of Landsman Communications Group, board
member at TeleTruth and participant in project VRM
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25. “Most of the research shows that social networking tools help expand the range of weak
ties while not affecting the strong ties. But mobile communications has already had a
huge positive impact on the strong ties – we stay in much closer contact with our family
members and close friends than ever before. I envision a world in which these tools will
give us more or less all the capabilities that in mythology were attributed to telepaths –
we'll be able to transmit thoughts more or less instantly to as small or large a group as we
choose. There's not way to predict what we'll say though, so its hard to forecast whether
that will be a good or bad thing.” —Anthony Townsend, director of technology development
and research director at The Institute for the Future
Our tools are changing quickly, but basic human nature seems to change at a slower pace.
Technology amplifies people’s existing tendencies; it doesn’t change human nature.
“Communications are better, relationships can get better with communications, but we
still are evolving, dirty, little mammals and have the ability to do all the wrongs things
with the best of technology. The internet is a huge improvement over previous
communications and media technologies – it has not stopped us from hurting each other.
Life is a lot more convenient.” —Glenn Edens, technology strategy consultant, formerly senior
vice president and director of Sun Microsystems Laboratories, chief scientist at HP, president
AT&T Strategic Ventures
“I don't believe the internet makes us better or worse people, but I do believe it has an
amplification effect on the best and worst parts of our nature. I think that by 2020 people
will learn how to fit a relevant, manageable stream of social information into their lives in
a way that, on balance, makes them feel more connected. There will continue to be
negatives to internet-based relationships – they will offer a false sense of connectedness
to people who are unhealthily isolated, they will enable connections that will ruin
marriages, they will lead to new forms of harassment and bullying – but these are human
problems, not internet problems. The benefits of staying connected to old friends, family
and colleagues will outweigh these negatives.” —Matt Gallivan, senior research analyst,
audience insight and research, National Public Radio (US)
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