Modern connectivity is very much the domain of the young. Younger people have a more positive outlook than their elders. They won't start looking for reasons for conflict; instead, they start finding ways to communicate and build friendships, said David W. Ferguson, honorary chief English editor of Foreign Languages Press, CICG, at the Seminar on Advancing the Building of a Community with a Shared Future in Cyberspace to a New Stage, which was hosted in Beijing on Sept 3.