Professor Barry Wellman from the University of Toronto in Canada has invented a term to describe the way many North Americans interact(交流)these days．The
1 is “networked individualism(网络个体主义)”．This idea is not easy to understand because the two words seem to have
2 meanings．How can we be individuals and be 3 at the same time? You need other people for networks．
Here is what Professor Wellman 4 ．Before the invention of the Internet and e-mail, our social networks are
5 interactions with relatives, neighbors, and workmates at 6 ．Some of the interaction was by phone, but it was
7 voice to voice, person to person, in 8 world．
A recent research study by the Pew Internet and American Life Project 9
that for a lot of people, electronic interaction through the computer has 10 this person-to-person interaction．
11 , a lot of people interviewed for the Pew study say that's a 12 thing．Why?
In the past, many people were worried that the Internet 13 us and caused us to spend too much time in the 14 world of the computer．But the Pew study discovered that the opposite is 15 ．The Internet connects us with more real people than expected- 16
people who can give advice on careers, medical 17 , raising children, and choosing a school or college．About 60 million Americans told Pew that the 18
plays an important role in helping them make major life 19 ．
Thanks to the computer, “networked individuals” are able to be 20
and together with other people at the same time!
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