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Introduction In an email that someone sent to me this past week, a number of interesting facts were highlighted about our rapidly changing world. These included facts such as: · the average person will have had twelve jobs by their thirty‑eighth birthday; · the top ten jobs that will be in demand in 2010 did not even exist in 2004; we are currently preparing students for jobs that do not yet exist, in which they will use technologies and tools that have not yet been invented, in order to solve problems we do not yet even know are problems; · seventy percent of United States’ four year olds have used a computer; · there are over one hundred million people registered on MySpace, which means that if MySpace were a country, it would be the eleventh largest country in the world; · the first text message was sent in 1992 – my youngest daughter probably sent it – actually, she had not even been born yet; · currently, the number of text messages sent and received every day exceeds the population of the world; · there are nearly three billion searches on Google in one month’s time. One of the points that stuck out to me in this list of rapidly changing dynamics in our culture today was that by the year 2005, one out of every eight couples who married, met online. This number has increased dramatically in the last three years. I did a little digging and found out that the fastest growing trend in dating is e‑Dating. More and more relationships are developing online.
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