---
title: "Family Connections Online"
description: "Readers react to coverage of our \"Networked Families\" report (and at least one person is worried about the mom who feels \"naked\" without her Blackberry)."
date: "2008-10-20"
authors:
  - name: "Susannah Fox"
    job_title: "Former Researcher"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/susannah-fox/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2008/10/20/family-connections-online/"
categories:
  - "Family & Relationships"
  - "Mobile"
  - "Technology Adoption"
tags:
  - "Families"
---

# Family Connections Online

The Washington Post's story, ["Internet, Cellphones May Strengthen Family Unit, Study Finds,"](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/19/AR2008101901346.html) details the findings of our most recent [report ](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Reports/2008/Networked-Families.aspx)on the internet's impact on families as well as real-life testimony from one mom who feels "naked" without her Blackberry and a dad who limits his family's use of their four cell phones and six computers.

Readers have two opportunities to leave comments: [one](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/19/AR2008101901346_Comments.html) attached to the article, [another](http://voices.washingtonpost.com/parenting/2008/10/connected_--_and_happy_about_i.html) in the On Parenting blog.

For more reader reaction to our findings, please see the comments attached to the [USA Today story](http://www.usatoday.com/tech/wireless/2008-10-19-family-texting_N.htm), the [L.A. Times blog](http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/10/internet-brings.html), and the Tacoma News Tribune blog.