IOWA CITY: A majority of this fall's university freshman were born in 2004 — the same year Facebook joined Myspace in the online landscape — and have never lived in a world without social media.
Just three years after Facebook's inception came the iPhone, cultivating a culture where today's students came of age looking for acceptance, affirmation, information and connection through likes, retweets and endless scrolling via handheld devices they take with them seemingly everywhere.
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