Social Networks and the Digital Divide

Link to June 20 The Social blog post, "Study: Social networks may subvert 'digital divide'."

Excerpt:
Social networks like Facebook and MySpace have reputations as time-sucking procrastination tools, but a new study from the University of Minnesota says au contraire.

Social networks build beneficial technological, creative, and communication skills, the study says, leading the researchers to actually describe social networks with the adjective "educational." Who knew?

(Be sure to read the variable comments.)

Link to University of Minnesota 6/19 news release about the study.

Watch a video about the study and a full interview with the lead researcher.