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:::''For example, '''Facebook''' and '''Twitter''' are useful for posting messages and keeping in touch with friends and events,<br />but they lack the ability to '''create and collectively edit''' ideas and document content in a transparent manner''.
::'''Disconnection of Document generation and editing'''
::: Documents involving word-processing, spreadsheets, and slide-shows are mainly edited "off-line", which '''requires more work downloading and uploading files'''. Although they may be posted to web-pages, '''those documents are not real "living documents"''', instead they represent a "one-way flow" of information. Also, they those '''documents may become immediately "out-of-date", until those documents are downloaded, editing, saved, and uploaded'''.
::'''Natural Disconnects to Online Collaboration'''
:::I would guess if I asked a random group of people '''what a WIKI was, eighty-five percent would not know'''. On the other hand, '''if I asked how many of them used WikiPedia, eighty-five percent of them would respond "yes"'''. If I asked how '''many added content to Wikipedia on a topic, <u>less than a tenth of a percent</u> would respond "yes"'''.
