{"id":206,"date":"2006-12-03T06:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-03T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2006\/12\/197.html"},"modified":"2006-12-03T06:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-03T13:51:00","slug":"197","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/197\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalcenter.org\/pages\/current_report.asp?intGlobalId=19\">has released its sixth annual &#8220;Surveying the Digital Future&#8221; report<\/a> and the findings validate the momentum of social media communities. Among the highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than a fifth of online community members take some kind of offline action related to the community.<\/li>\n<li>Two-thirds of people who are active in social causes online say they were unfamiliar with those causes before learning about them online.<\/li>\n<li>People reported meeting an average of 1.6 people in person whom they originally met online.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Almost all users report that the Internet has no effect on the time spent with close friends or family face-to-face.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That last point is important because online communities are frequently criticized for making people less socially interactive. In fact, 43% respondents to the survey said the Internet has increased the number of people they stay in contact with.<\/p>\n<p>I expect this last number to grow as social media proliferates. The first decade of the Web was mostly a read-only affair. With one in eight Americans now maintaining a website, you can expect interaction to drive the next phase of growth. The belief that the Internet makes people more isolated is a myth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School has released its sixth annual &#8220;Surveying the Digital Future&#8221; report and the findings validate the momentum of social media communities. Among the highlights: More than a fifth of online &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/197\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sTy95-197","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}