E-mail is a tool that many people now use to deepen and improve their ties to family and friends. Use of the Internet actually enlarges and enriches most users' social worlds. And that is particularly true for women.

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.

We live in a media age. In many respects, it is more important for people to be known in the media culture than to make money in the media culture.

You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusive of friendship. Family members can be your best friends, you know. And best friends, whether or not they are related to you, can be your family.

This is e-mail from your friends and colleagues ... that is worthless.

The Pew actually allows respondents to decide themselves. I would say absolutely we're dealing with a term that is not particularly well-defined because blogging is a platform. Blogs can be so many different things to so many different people. The definition needs to be more about structure than content.