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The Valentine's Day breakup of two North Carolina college students that featured singers, hundreds of spectators and a profanity-laced tirade was a hoax after all.Ryan Burke confessed Monday that the confrontation, which became an instant hit on YouTube.com, was all a stunt to show the power of Internet communities and the amount of money that companies make from them. The pair weren't even dating. -
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Author's quote: "we’re living in frontier country right now." Clay Shirky & danah boyd are quoted in the article. The author argues that 3 major changes define today's teens: 1) they think of themselves as having an audience 2) they're archiving their adolescence 3) they have a thicker skin than we do. -
2voteJeff Jarvis: "Young people just have a very very different view of privacy than people in my generation…The truth is, on the Internet, if you don’t reveal some of yourself, you won’t find friends." The bottom line is that our cultural experience of privacy is changing, whether we like it or not. And I think it’s one of the biggest disconnects we’re experiencing with our students these days.
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2voteIncludes a good story about a Yale student whose video resume was posted on the Internet without his knowledge or consent.
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