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"I think I have an account on AmericanIdol.com."
Weiss is hip.Her brown bangs hang slightly above her amber-colored glasses.
She's dressed in a short cream-colored floral print dress, which hangs over a pair of tattered jean shorts.
And on her feet, she sports blue, grey and pink Nike Air Force Ones.
She's representative of a growing number of computer-savvy college students.
They're cool nerds, students just as capable of computer programming as they are at succeeding socially.
"I definitely would not deny the fact that I'm a big nerd," Weiss said.
"But I like to think I'm cool, too."
They are students whose lives online are as significant as their lives in the real world.
University students such as Ross Miller, who flies the world to blog about video games; Zlatko Unger, who runs a part-time photography business through networking online; or Cody Boisclair, a different type of story.
Dr.
Craig Piercy has studied the changing face of the Internet and is familiar with the culture surrounding early adopters.
Piercy is the director of Terry College's master's of Internet technology department
Early adopters are those who use these new technologies first.
"Many times, they're usually more the risk takers," Piercy said.
"Many times, what they're adopting becomes trendy."
Early adopters are at the center of Web 2.0.
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