I recently read an article about an out-going 34 year old woman named Danah Boyd. She is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge Massachusetts. She is the first antroantopoligist to focus on the teen behaviors and benefits from social networking sites like Facebook and twitter.
Most adults fear teen internet usage. They feel as if teens share entirely too much information over the internet. Danah Boyd strongly disagrees. She feels that this generation has more computer safety. She also believes that teens put stuff on the internet because parents are constantly giving "web rules"
When Danah was 16, 13 of her friends died, and she was cared that she might be next. Due to an absent father, and divorced parents Danah was a troubled child in school. So she talked to online predators over the internet. I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't think talking to strangers who save her life. Well in this case it did. She was able to talk to people over the internet who knew what she was going through.
My mom has taught me about internet safety. Therefore i know how to portray certain emotions without giving too much information.
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