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  • Researchers reported that family life has not been weakened, as many had feared, by new technology. Rather, families have compensated for the stress and hurry of modern life with cell phone calls, e-mail and text messages and other new forms of communication.

    Wellman said families appreciated the innovations because “they know what each other is doing during the day.” This, he said, comports with his other research, which shows that technology “doesn’t cut back on their physical presence with each other. It has not cut down on their face time.”

    The ease of being in touch has created a phenomenon that Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Internet project, calls “love taps,” in which couples exchange hellos and touch base with a regularity that did not exist 10 years ago.

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