Internet Plays Larger Role In U.S. Life

FutureWire blog has a post on a Pew/Internet study which finds an increase in the use of the internet as a "crucial source of information at major moments and milestones" in the lives of Americans. This included a 45% increase in the number who said the internet played a major role as they made major investment or financial decisions.

I found Brian's comments on FutureWire to be most relevent in that light:

"Longtime observers of the Internet are surely not surprised at these findings,
which underscore how the Net is replacing older, smaller networks such as family
and close friends. To than end, an interesting study might be to what degree the
information/support found online was better or worse than that gathered through
more traditional means. On the one hand, access to online communities is
available regardless of one's family status or physical location. But on the
other, community members rarely have a stake in each other's success; it's no
skin off someone's nose if they provide biased, misinformed or misleading
advice."

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