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suggest that students are learning to recognize various levels of potential threat and deal with them accordingly. In casual discussions with students this past Spring, several mentioned changing their public sites to private to have more control over their online presence.”

On the other hand, many educators may feel that time spent on social media activities are currently detracting from time that could be spent on studies and feel less optimistic about the positive outcomes they could deliver.

While blocking, filtering, and legislation may be quick, “feel good” fixes by politicians to address this real issue, ultimately, education is the answer.

If all adults who have anything to do with kids (teachers, coaches, youth group leaders, employers, advisors, counselors, recommenders) had their own “myspace” or “facebook” pages, and linked to the kids in their sphere of influence, the social networks would become much more healthy and useful for kids.