High- Tech Hot Spots

摘要

Julianna allen's all ready for Vassar. She's ordered her Apple iBook with the Vassar discount, and she's got her iPod fully loaded. She knows the campus, having studied up online. But most important, ever since she got her acceptance letter she's been meeting her future classmates virtually. They're easy to find on Vassar's Web site as well as at Thefacebook.com, the online phenomenon that's probably sucked up more free time than videogames Halo 2 and Madden NFL combined. Some of her uninitiated friends ask, "Isn't that just a thing for stalkers?" But Allen, of Takoma Park, Md., has already had people get in touch who share her love of Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" novels, along with other things she's had to say in Vassar's online forums. "I think we're going to be friends," she says.