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Citizenship in a Digital Community : Who Are the Audience, Who Are the Readers

One may argue that social media networks had formed a disconnection on face-to-face interactions among people;

while another would say social media network connectivity are the key remedy for loneliness by making an illusion of companionship between people.

This debate has been going on ever since the rise of the new digital era.

Over the years, digital diversity has become more and more encompassing because of the epidemic growing rate of the new technology.

However, digital divide shows even with affordable technology and internet access, the divide between the educated and the uneducated or the rich and the poor or the people from the rural or the urban areas still questions the percentage of those actually exposed to this digital diversity.

“Diffusion is essentially a social process through which people talking to people spread an innovation.” stated Everette Rogers.

His analysis of the Innovation adoption curve model pigeonholes into several classes includes from early adopters to laggards, identifying that certain people are unavoidably more exposed to adaptation than the rest.

“Teens on social media go from dumb to dangerous” writes CBS News. Studies found that by the age of 10 around 59% of children have already used a social network and by age of 12 around 43% have messaged strangers online .

Social networking has opened up several new entranceways for cyber-crime, and with all the people on social networks who are entirely novel to the technology, it’s more important than ever to make sure people are aware of the risks.