Youth and technology
July 13, 2010 by Sarah Newton
Filed under Professionals
Finally we stop ragging on the future of technology
It seems that the tide is beginning to turn when it comes to internet use and social media. For many years now, the mass media has been saying that social media is destroying us all, something most of us know to be untrue, and it looks as if current research may show just that.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released its report on Internet-based socialization. The conclusions in The Future of Online Socialization segment of the survey are positive.
The online world, according to most of the Internet specialists surveyed, is going to add to the texture and mood of social interactions, not detract from them.
“The social benefits of Internet use will far outweigh the negatives over the next decade, according to experts. 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.”
It is a pleasant surprise to see information like this beginning to hit main stream and as social media becomes much more localised and useful to us, things can only get better!
