Palm pilots have the standing reputation of being one of the most popularly common consumer electronic devices being used by many nowadays. Basically, they are personal digital assistants and bears the vernacular “palm pilot” term from one of the most successful models of personal digital assistants from Palm. First introduced in 1996, the they were very popular, to the point that its name has somewhat become the definitive term being used in defining personal digital assistants. But its name isn’t the only thing that paved the way for the production and development of impressive classes of personal digital assistants. Its rather multi-diversified course of function has made palm pilots superstar electronic gadgets in the realm of multifunctional devices, paving the way for the development of more advanced personal digital assistants.

These days, primarily, a palm pilot is a digital organizer, allowing users to easily jot down their schedules, as well as synchronize their input data with their personal computer systems utilizing palm pilot cables, the now de facto USB standard in personal computer hardware communications and interface. Through the use of palm pilot cables, users also have the ability to easily store date into their devices, making cables the connection medium through which users could maximize their digital organizers.

More advanced classes of feature integrated features like that of a digital camera, for example, making one’s palm pilot not only a digital organizer, but a digital camera as well, negating the need for users to bring along digital cameras with them. With the use of palm pilot cables connecting palm pilot device to personal computer, users could easily upload whatever pictures they’ve taken with their digital camera enabled models. Certain classes of are built to handle communications, making these devices mobile phones, at their most basic. The use of cables, allows for the synchronization of mobile phone media related data such as mobile phone contacts, and SMS or MMS messages sent and received from friends and family. As portable digital electronic data storage devices, palm pilots could also be utilized for such functions, again, made easy with the use of palm pilot cables, which practically handle all the personal computer and device communication related needs.

Social networking is booming as young adults find one another online to chat, post comments, post photos, and share info about the latest happenings in their world to their Myspace pages and Friendster networking sites. It is not always a good thing for sure, but more on that later on.

So how does it work? Well some genius thought up the concept of Myspace, which is basically a free bulletin board for anyone (not just teens) to create a web site that is all about networking and communicating with friends and creating new friends too. Users create a free account, enter information about themselves, in as much or little detail as they want. They then share their site with their friends. Their friends can then post comments on the myspace. It becomes a great big bulletin board of social interaction. The kids are glued to these things and seem to know how to find one another and chase down the latest hot info in a heartbeat.

So what does this mean to communication in the Internet age for teens and young adults? It puts a fancier face on the outpouring of information exchange between teens.

It used to be that only the geeky teens had web pages about themselves. They were the only ones who knew how to build them. Now with these easy to use tools at their disposal every teen or young adult can have a site. That means connections and networking spreads very fast.

The sharing aspect of these sites are not only their good side but also their bad side as well. In the last year many schools and parents have become alarmed at the content of some of these Myspace sites that students have built. In typical teen fashion some kids say on their site what probably should not be said in public. They post as though it were a diary and then it gets spread around. That means that hate and meanness spread within the community quickly. Some schools have cracked down and told students they would be expelled if they do not clean up their sites. Parents, just finding out about the technology and checking it out for the first time become alarmed at the things that are said on these postings.

Of course that aspect comes back to the old thing of parents needing to be in tune with their kids and what is going on in their world. You cannot give a kid a computer and internet access and then walk away and not pay any attention.

The other thing that has raised alarm in this world of social networking is kids will post news of a party in their area, to their site. Instead of getting to “just” their friends it ends up spreading to the whole area. Homes have been overrun by crowds of kids trying to attend parties. One such event even ended with a fatal stabbing when the crowd got to big and unruly.

Now these are the type of things that can happen with or without such social networking sites in teens lives. These sites are not going to fade away. Myspace has over 60 million subscribers and was recently bought by a major corporation. They intend to make a lot of money off these sites for years to come. After all it is a very juicy target market for advertising revenue.