digital nation - life on the virtual frontier

Relationships How technology is changing friendship, parenting and love.

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How Jonathan Met Kitten

Jonathan explains how he met and stays in touch with his best friend of six years -- online.
Over the past few years, sites like MySpace and Facebook have become wildly popular. Teens...
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The Rise of Social Networking
Seems like everyone's social networking these days. Henry Jenkins, a leading scholar in co...
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Your Kids on Social Media
At Morristown High School, a MySpace quarrel became a real world fight.
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Fighting on MySpace
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Checking MySpace on the Front Lines

For many soldiers and officers, MySpace is the primary tool for keeping up with friends and family back home.
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The Human Touch

Philip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life, wonders, is technology isolating us or bringing us closer together?
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Student Lab

Baby Boomers Facebooking

Facebook started as a place for college students to connect, but now its fastest growing age group is 55-65.
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Your Kids on Social Media

Seems like everyone's social networking these days. Henry Jenkins, a leading scholar in comparative media studies who currently teaches at USC, has some advice for parents who haven't signed up yet.
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The Rise of Social Networking

Over the past few years, sites like MySpace and Facebook have become wildly popular. Teens tell us why they love them.
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Fighting on MySpace

At Morristown High School, a MySpace quarrel became a real world fight.

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posted February 2, 2010