Very interesting case in which an adult is convicted of a misdemeanor when she posed as a teenage boy on MySpace and communicated with another teenager who ended up committing suicide.
Discusses a MacArthur Foundation study on teens' online socializing.
The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
This article shares some concerns of using social networking sites.
To keep kids safer online, are educators making it easier to target advertising to their students?
What types of communication should teachers have with students on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace?
Over the last six months, i've noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That's only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it's not a shift so much as a fragmentation. Until recently, American teenagers were flocking to MySpace. The picture is now being blurred. Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Which go where gets kinda sticky, because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.
• YouTube, MySpace, 11 other sites blocked
• Traffic hurting system performance, military says
• Personnel will be able to access sites using own computers
This site allows you to track the status of any bill, but this particular link tracks the status of the "MySpace Bill" (Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006)
The list is a bit out-of-date, but who can really maintain a list of something that grows soooo much every day!
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Very interesting case in which an adult is convicted of a misdemeanor when she posed as a teenage boy on MySpace and communicated with another teenager who ended up committing suicide.
Discusses a MacArthur Foundation study on teens' online socializing.
The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
To keep kids safer online, are educators making it easier to target advertising to their students?
What types of communication should teachers have with students on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace?
Over the last six months, i've noticed an increasing number of press articles about how high school teens are leaving MySpace for Facebook. That's only partially true. There is indeed a change taking place, but it's not a shift so much as a fragmentation. Until recently, American teenagers were flocking to MySpace. The picture is now being blurred. Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Which go where gets kinda sticky, because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.
This site allows you to track the status of any bill, but this particular link tracks the status of the "MySpace Bill" (Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006)
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