By Juan Marquez, jmarquez
@ stanford.edu
INTRODUCTION
>> Nationwide, more and more students are
becoming dependant on instant messaging as a primary
form of communication. At Stanford, almost 90% of the
students now use IM on a weekly basis. However, very
little research has been done on the consequences that
IM has on the socialization of college students. Most
prior research has focused solely on the effects of
general online interaction. In this paper, I will look
at both the early and later research that has been done
on online interaction and investigate how this general
research relates to the specific ways that Instant Messaging
affects the social lives of college students.
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