Saturday, December 27, 2008

Young Adults Online

A new study from the John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation suggests that young adults are developing important social and technical skills while online, and online, and online. The study was conducted over 3 years, utilized 28 researchers, interviewed more than 800 young people and logged over 5,000 hours of online observation.

What do you think? You can read the report at www.macfound.org/dml.

Nathan

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My son (age 19) has been telling me this for several years. I was skeptical, I admit. Now that I'm trying to navigate the world of Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites, I think he's right.