Digital Recluse
Thursday, October 15th, 2009Everybody knows at least one.
Those strange individuals who refuse to join social networks. Your un-Facebook friends.
Today (err yesterday, as it’s 1 am), the Washington Post did an article on young adults who fall within Facebook demographics, yet refuse to join.
The vast majority of their peers in the millennial generation are social networking pros: About 85 percent of all Internet users 18 to 34 visited Facebook, MySpace or Twitter in August, according to ComScore, a Reston-based Internet data research company. And about 84 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds check social networking sites at least once a week, according to a May study by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
It’s hard to wrap your mind around it. A twentysomething not on Facebook. It’s so strange.
Up until this May, I knew one.
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