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Pew: Facebook, Twitter and the web enrich social lives, survey says

A survey found that 85 percent of 895 \"technology stakeholders\" and pundits agreed that the Internet has mostly been a positive force in peoples\' social live...

Federal News Network Staff

July 8, 2010 3:57 pm

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A survey by Pew and Elon found that 85 percent of 895 “technology stakeholders” and pundits agreed that the Internet has mostly been a positive force in peoples’ social lives, Eweek.com reports.

Social benefits of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google Apps will outweigh the negatives over the next decade because e-mail, social networks, and other Web services offer low friction ways to forge and rediscover social ties that make a difference in people’s lives.

Much has been penned about how Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networking tools hinder and help productivity in the enterprise.

Some users spend too much time on these Websites; others leverage them for sales and networking opportunities that boost the corporate bottom line. But what about the impact of social software and the Internet at large on users’ social lives?

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