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January 24, 2008

College Students Want Elders Off Their Technology Cloud

"It's nice that adults know SOME things," says Seigal, an 18-year-old freshman at Binghamton University in New York. He especially likes IMing with his grandma because he's "not a huge talker on the phone." Increasingly, however, he and other young people are feeling uncomfortable about their elders encroaching on what many young adults and teens consider their technological turf. Nowhere are the technological turf wars more apparent than on social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, which went from being student-oriented to allowing adults outside the college ranks to join. Read more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080122/ap_on_hi_te/technological_turf_war

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