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And Ekin? "I check my account at least one time a day. If I talk with my
family, it's like an hour. But if I don't talk to them, just ten or twelve minutes at
most."
And what about Evan Falchuk - a frequent commentator on social media. How
often does he check for updates? "It kind of happens in the background, because I
have an iPhone which I love. And the iPhone has applications on it for each of the
social media that we've been talking. And so I'm frequently looking at it or typing
stuff or posting something. It feels like it's something I do continuously."
Some people like to write long entries in their blogs. On Twitter, each message,
or tweet, is limited to one hundred forty characters.
Market researchers at Pear Analytics say they are big fans of Twitter. But in a
recent study they declared that forty percent of the tweets captured over a two-week
period were "pointless babble."
Evan Falchuk would agree that some people write things like "I am now sitting
in the doctor's waiting room." "But most of the people on Twitter that I see are
actually trying to have a substantive discussion - a real conversation about topics that
are interesting to them. So for me personally, I'm in the health care business and in
America we're having this very important debate about health care. And I'm
connected with hundreds - actually I think maybe thousands - of health care
professionals or people with an opinion on health care or doctors or others who are
constantly posting things to do with what's going on in health care."
Some people find answers through social media. Others find love.
A woman named Georgina says she used a social dating site because she was
looking "for a higher quality of a mate." She was still looking when we talked to her.
But she thinks the new technologies are a great way to communicate - as long as
people still show traditional respect for each other.
"Back in the 1980s when I was dating without computers, cell phones, text
messaging, instant messaging, people had to be more organized. They had to be
home, and they had to stick to their plans, because you had no way of communicating
with someone once you left for your destination. Nowadays, with the extremely fast
mode of communication, people have the ability to be lazy and spontaneous and not
organized, because they can text you at the last minute or call you wherever you are
and say 'I'm not coming, change of plans.'"
3 COMPREHENSION CHECK
Decide whether these statements are TRUE or FALSE
1. Social networks lose their value to younger generation with older population
that gets access to them.

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