Young people identify with an online community almost as strongly as with their own family

Monday, August 23, 2010 - 10:14 in Psychology & Sociology

Teenage online community users feel part of their online community almost as much as they feel part of their own family. An international study of the users of a teenage online community reveals that users identify more strongly with the online community than with their neighborhood or offline hobby group.

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