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tech.yahoo.com - 11/5/2009
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AP - A new study confirms what your 130 Facebook friends and scores of Twitter followers may have already told you: The Internet and mobile phones are not linked to social isolation.
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CrunchGear: Breaking: Online social network use isn’t detrimental to your actual social network
| Study: Internet use leads to more diverse networks http://bit.ly/J7OqF 11/7/2009 |
| RT @iwantmedia Internet, cellphone users are "more social; more likely to visit a bar," says new Pew study http://bit.ly/2zlQJ2 11/5/2009 |
| Who would of thunk it - the interwebs enables social activity: http://bit.ly/2zlQJ2 - Madness! 11/5/2009 |
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Breaking: Online social network use isn’t detrimental to your actual social network
CrunchGear —
... who use social networks tend to have “real” social networks that are more diverse than people who don’t
• Internet users are no less likely to have a chat with their neighbor than someone who doesn’t use the Internet all that much
You can read the full study here, or, like me, just be content with the executive summary. My interest in social networks died some time ago, but hooray for all the folks out there who keep bringing the thunder.
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