Summer interns get social

Posted August 15th, 2006 at 6:30 am by Doreen Bloch, Yahoo! Intern

 6 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News

Nowadays, every young person I know seems to be afflicted with a “connection infection” that just won’t go away. Ironically, most don’t want to cure their social networking fever… Why? Because these days, to many young adults, it seems that without their very own profile on some sort of social networking web site, they pretty much don’t exist.

I invited a small group of Yahoo! summer interns to chat about this booming Internet trend. After all, who better to talk to about social networking sites than the Yahoos who are part of the largest demographic of users?

Ranging in age from 18 to 26, from high school to graduate student, they joined me to share their experiences and observations about social networking – from using Facebook to learn more about a crush, to parents creating MSN Spaces profiles to “spy” on their kids, to wondering about a future where a Presidential candidate has to contend with the legacy of having a MySpace page.

• Click here to listen to (and download) the discussion.

• Click here for the full transcript.

Front row (L to R): Paul Stamatiou, Phil Freo, Brianna Satinoff, Richard Crowley
Back row (L to R): Chen Yang, me, Will Urich

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Phil Freo | August 15th, 2006 at 7:24 am

Doreen, your “me” link goes nowhere useful :-)

Richard Crowley | August 15th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

So I know my family listened to this. They made fun of me for saying “digital native” in the podcast. In response, I called my Mom a digital immigrant. Keep up the good work, yodelers.

Dimitry | August 20th, 2006 at 11:58 pm

Ah, looks like lots of fun. Good stuff guys.

Digital Music Generation | October 10th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

We are a digital generation. Just not many years ago music was on vinyl!

nourisha | March 5th, 2008 at 8:19 am

I would like a copy of the transcript but the link is not working. Can you provide the text file?

Nicki Dugan | March 7th, 2008 at 1:01 am

@nourisha: Thanks for pointing that out. We had a link issue that became problematic when we redesigned the site in January — but the file now has a new link and should be working just dandy.