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Laptops, Internet, Social Networking and Their Influence on Teenagers
Nowadays the laptops, accompanied with the social networking phenomenon and wireless internet capability, have completely changed the way we socially relate with others. They have heavily influenced the teenagers. There are many sites being developed each day that connect friends and acquaintances online. Few such sites are namely Facebook, MySpace, StumbleUpon and Orkut. What do these social networking sites offer, other than helping you to find out long lost friends and make some new ones? You can create and join communities that interests you, where you can gain and share innumerous knowledge of various topics, you can also share video, music and more.
Within these groups are members share special interests like other websites, video, music, software and more. Chat is also conducted randomly and the websites have applications that can tell which of your friends is online and which one is not. Then phone, cable network providers and Internet providers have made it possible for the world to experience wireless Internet. This means that with the pink laptop, one can actually be online while away from home.
Now take a look at the gaming world. It is the gaming craze that in turn increases the popularity of the laptop. They have appeared more realistic; far better intelligence than its predecessor and obviously with a stunning graphics. Your laptop is also provided with the capability to run games like Madden, Doom and Half Life.
Droves of youths and adults as well are now spending billions of dollars every year and laptop makers are positioning themselves to cater to this market by making laptops that have more speed, more power and more storage capacity (because of music and sound).
Computer manufactures conduct aggressive research into their target markets and this research has revealed that more laptops are now being purchased by younger people. This is all because of the factors we have listed above; the fact that laptops are now multimedia and gaming centers. Then there are many who actually do both-gaming and audio-video entertainment although all are part of entertainment.
The laptops these days are heavily loaded with accessories such as Bluetooth, webcam, extensive graphics enhancers, wifi, etc. They have bent more towards meeting the needs of the crazy gamers and people who love music, videos, internet chat and more, unlike earlier times, when laptops were used solely by business travelers, university researchers, lecturers and teachers.
Also the fact, along with many others, that these laptops can be used by students to hold study sessions anywhere maybe at some other friend's home or at some professors office or may be in the park, necessitated the laptop to come bundled with necessary wireless internet capacity.
The major laptop manufacturers such as Dell, Toshiba, Sony, HP-Compaq and others are attracting more youth into the laptop market by making it possible for them to customize the way the laptop looks and feels. This can be done right from the seller's website or via the use of skins. These skins have made it possible for young to add artwork and even their own photo to the laptop outward appearance. The competition to look unique is intense as more graphics are added to cater to the different tastes. All this has made transformed the way teenagers work, live and interact.
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