Saturday August 07, 2010
The Internet Generation Prefers the Real World
Manfred Dworschak
Spiegel International
They may have been dubbed the "Internet generation," but young people are more interested in their real-world friends than Facebook. New research shows that the majority of children and teenagers are not the Web-savvy digital natives of legend. In fact, many of them don't even know how to google properly.
Seventeen-year-old Jetlir is online every day, sometimes for many hours at a time and late into the night. The window of his instant messaging program is nearly always open on his computer screen.
read full story
Posted in: by bubblejam at 05:04 AM | Comments (0) | Email This Entry