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Throughout history。 humans a 汰<<い
have had an
Urge to make social
connections、 Making friends js Something that most p
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ple do naturally
when meeting people through fmily and friends and getting to k
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people in their neighborhood, at school or im the
"workplace。 mm addition,
the Internet has (|131) a new meeting place一
SNS).
the social networking site
Social networking sites were originally designed to help adults connect
with other adults: Users (| 14 | ) their own profi
le containing personal
mformation (such as likes and dislikes) which others could look through,
When you found someone with similar interests to you that you wanted to
contact。 you *posted a message and waited for a reply. These types of
SNS were PD but access was usually *ofE mits to children。 Tt should
come aS no surprise that technologically *savvy teenagers would Want to
use computers in a similar Way.
Im the United States。 MySpace.com is one of the largest social
networking sites with over 100 miliion users。 Unlike some sites that
( 司| ) a special invitation to jon, MySpace js open to everyone Over the
age of 14. Users create their own personal profile page and can spend
their time *blogging, posting photos and instant messaging with other
members from all over the world. They can then decide whetherlthey
want to make their profile available only to friends or to al registered
USeTS.
Many *teens now prefer using SNS to ( ) touch with friends and
meet new people. Instead of asking for a phone number or lemailladdressi
asking for someone's MySpace profile iS becoming almuch more lpopular
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