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This article raises issues regarding adolescents use of socially interactive technologies and there relationship to offline social networks.
The article talks about wether SIT relationships are important for adolescents who have not got as many offline priorities, if adoloecents are creating more, but weaker ties using SITs and what adoloescent SIT faciliated networks overlap with friendship networks.

Findings have shown from research through the intergration of questions, network data collection and analysis with more rescent questionaire methodology and analysis that youth are using SITs to enhance communication among friends and family, to make plans with one another, and to maintain social contact outside of their day-to -day face to face conversations. Little overlap was shown between SIT facilitaed and offline social networks, isolated adoloescents are less likely than other adoloescents to use SITs. Also they are not creating more ties using SITs or creating weaker SIT based ties.