Young People and Happiness Study

MTV and Associated Press released a study today about young people and what makes them happy. Of their many findings, the following:

"Cell phones, the Internet and other technologies are integrally woven into the lives of today's young people and nearly two thirds say they make people happier. Half of those young people polled say the Internet alone helps them feel happier.

And here's a quote from almost 30 years ago from some of the founder of the Internet (JCR Licklider & Robert W. Taylor,"The Computer as a Communication Device," Science and Technology, 1968):

"Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity."


An interesting prediction that seems to have come true.