Hi all, I agree with Denis here about the interesting points and I would like to take this a bit further. Habituation process or embeding the technology/technology application to your everyday life can also be described with R. Silverstone's domestication of technology theories, as he sees as the result of the successful domestication of the artefact to be invisibility. It would be very interesting to broaden this notion of domestication also to the technological applications of for what we use the thechnology (like e-mail). But coming from somewhat younger genereation, who has had Internet in her life more than one third of it, I have a question about the uses and gratifications part. Why rule that out? why think that if a technological application becomes habitual in its use, that then we have no use and/or gratification to it? Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems to me, that technology can become habitual only if we find the appropriate uses and gratifications to it? and Playing along with ideas on Bourdieu, different logic of practices makes uses and gratifications (and therefore domestication) easier for some people rather than others. It is very interesting thread for me as I try, in my research, to doexactly the thing - look at what kind of people, with what kind of cultural, economic and social capital, use and gratify interent in which ways. As I really feel that it is very important to openly start avoiding notion of singular internet use and start looking through prisms of different types of uses and users and gratifications. I hope some of this interesting discussion gets me further on this road. Pille Vengerfeldt PhD studnet in University of Tartu, Marie Curie Fellow in Dublin City University