If you're cooking dinner and wondering what ingredients to put in your meal, if you had a dial-up connection you would probably go to your cookbook,

If you do some harm to the company, you can't expect that the company is not going to respond.

In a very literal sense, the whole world's a stage for them.

Aristotle made the statement that humans are social animals. We like to see each other, know what each other is doing and share with each other. That yearning for connection has driven the rise of the Internet.

These teens were born into a digital world where expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with each other and lots of strangers,

It's clear that the Internet is being woven into people's most important relationships.

For a lot of people now, especially those with broadband connections, the first place they go to for information is online. But people are still warming up to the idea that lots of information about them is online.

For Internet users, it's so much easier to do this online.

There's a lot of experimenting and showing off going on. Eventually the better stuff will survive, and people doing it for a thrill will fade away.

They had a special kite-making program, so the kids got to make their own kites. All of the kids in my group were in to the experience, and they really wanted to show me their work and see what I thought of it, and to have them coming to me to seek that sort of validation showed me a glimpse of how important they are to me and potentially how important and connected I am to them.