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09 Dec 09

Study: Children Who Blog Or Use Facebook Have Higher Literacy Levels

as the title says. Contains stats from research

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The National Literacy Trust on 3,001 children from England and Scotland showed that schoolchildren who blog or own social networking profiles on Facebook have higher literacy levels and greater confidence in writing.
24 per cent said they had their own blog
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- 49 per cent of young people believe writing is “boring”. However, 57 per cent of those who used text-based web applications such as blogs, said they generally enjoyed writing compared to 40 per cent who did not.
- onathan Douglas, director of the National Literacy Trust, said: “The digital age often gets a bad press but the findings of this report demonstrate that social networking sites and blogs are linked to young people’s more positive attitudes to writing.
- Confidence and enjoyment are closely linked to the development of skills
- 40 per cent of teenagers had been exposed to pornography online, 20 per cent had been bullied and 10 per cent had met someone in the real world they had ‘met’ in a chatroom or a social media site.
- causing alarming changes in the brains of young users too, claimed neuroscientist Susan Greenfield. “My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment.”

10 Nov 09

Twitter / Brad J Ward: If Teen's Don't Tweet, the ...

great tweet about if Teens tweet or not.

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14 Aug 09

ConnectSafely Forums: Community

A forum of parents conversing with each other on parenting and technology. Seems to be very active

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06 Aug 09

Unit Structures – Teens Don’t Tweet, or, How to Read a Web Panel

Fred takes a look behind the study that Teens Don't Use Twitter and suggests (nothing definitive) that maybe the data is not totally accurate.

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Teens are a notoriously hard-to-reach population, and we generally see large standard errors around teen respondents in a population survey. Since error is not reported by Nielsen, and the makeup of their panel is confidential, it is impossible to know how much variation there is around the estimate of use. If the panel is like other panels, though, there may be more error in young people than a high-response population, such as adults.
the findings reported by Nielsen cover the following age ranges: 2-24, 25-54 and 55+. The critical category, 2-24, covers a wide range of users – incredibly young children, adolescents, teens and adults.
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- This analysis is simplistic and speculative,
- people” could plausibly use Twitter at higher rates than “adults.” I don’t have a guess regarding what is right, but my gut tells me that if Nielsen was more upfront regarding their sampling, and less misleading with their infographics, we’d have a different story. And that story would not be as catchy and headline-grabbing as “Teens Don’t Tweet.”

02 Aug 09

the blog of nellison: Growing (up) on Facebook

A look at the underplayed positives of facebook usage.

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Orenstein suggests that the connections to one's past resurrected by these sites will hinder, not enhance, identity development.
a user listed described herself as thinner than she was in "real life" - but then went on to lose weight so as to bring her actual self closer to the self represented in her profile.
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- the presence of hundreds of "friends" who are presumably acting as a deterrent for blatant mis-representation
- Our JCMC article on Facebook and bridging social capital (which was briefly mentioned in the NYT piece) highlights the potential benefits we receive from being exposed to a larger network of weak ties.
- For emerging adults, like college students, exposure to different perspectives and new information is likely to be especially beneficial precisely because they are trying on different identities and figuring out whether and how to re-invent themselves.

18 Jul 09

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The time magazine article about cyberporn where the facts ended up being totally disproven later.

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Teenager commits suicide over MySpace - ParentDish

The story of a girl who commited suicide over a mother pretending to be a boyfriend turned hater.

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A teenager, who had struggled with depression, ADD, and weight issues, was finally experiencing her Cinderella moment. She'd lost 25 lbs, was about to get her braces taken off, had found the perfect dress to wear at her upcoming 14th birthday party, and best of all, had become very friendly with a handsome 16 year- old boy she had met on MySpace, Josh Evans.
Josh inexplicably turned mean
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- Then she hung herself on her closet rod.
- the account had been created by a neighbor and mother of one of Megan's former friends to 'find out what Megan (Meier's daughter) was saying on-line' about her daughter.
- Because the case didn't break any laws, there have been no charges filed against the mother who got so involved in her own daughter's life she set the wheels in motion for another girl to take her own.

17 Jul 09

Weblogg-ed » “So Why Do You Only Give Your Kids 45-Minutes a Day on the Computer?”

conversation on how much or how little is too little to restrict kids on computer time

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Social Networking Workshop for Parents | The Thinking Stick

An overview of one schools SN workshop for parents. Outline of program and then talks about how kids are still kids we just need to update our vocab. Good stuff here

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In the 3 hours we covered the following:
- 20 minutes on introductions and Inside ISB our new educational portal
- 20 minutes on PantherNet (Moodle) our walled garden for learning
- 20 minute presentation on why students are so connected (this year’s seniors were born the same year the Internet was invented…they will never know a time without the Internet)
- 20 minutes on using YouTube as a life lone learning tool (parents searched for ‘how to’ videos on things they were interested in).
- 20 minutes on Internet Safety
- 20 minutes on web based library resources
- 20 minutes on Facebook
- 20 minutes on Google Search Skills
- 20 minutes on breaks, Q&A
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- I didn’t realize how little our parents knew. At one point we stopped to explain tabbed browsing and the back button.
- for the first time in the history of education we not only have to spend time on the students in our charge, but on re-educating our community as well on what it means to learn in today’s world.
- parents had taken an “Ignorance is Bliss” approach to technology, and rather than learning the tools what they really wanted was to find a way to spy on their kids.
- where should they start. My answer is always the same. Start with your own children. Grab a pen and piece of paper and really care about these spaces. Have them walk you through their Facebook account. Try and learn and understand what they do there
- Ask the questions:
  
  What do you think this pictures says about you?
  Do you know all (number of friends) of your ‘friends?
  Can you trust everyone on your ‘friends’ list not to download that picture?
  What does that update say about you as a person?
  Is that who you want to be known as?
- Limiting access to the computer is also not a bad thing
- Mom: “You can go play with your friends, but be home in an hour.”
  
  which is what my mom use to say….today:
  
  Mom: “You can go on Facebook, but you need to be back here in an hour.”
  
  It’s the same message.
  
  Dad: “Yes, you can go to the store with your friends, just know that dinner will be served at 7 and you are expected to be here.”
  
  which is what my dad use to say….today:
  
  Dad: “Yes, you can go on the Internet, just know that dinner will be served at 7 and you are expected to be here…and disconnected.”
- The conversations haven’t changed…or at least haven’t changed that much, we just need to update our vocabulary and understand these social spaces are the new ‘hang outs’ for students.
- Kids want to talk about their friends….we just need to ask. This is the time of their life to be soical and this generation has more ways to be connected socially than any generation before it. But they still want to know we care, we just need to update our conversations…but the conversations are the same.
- What I love about kids is that kids are kids. The language might have changed, the conversations might be different, but in the end they just want someone to care about them. They want to know you care enough to ask the questions, to get to know their wired world, and to be facinated by it, not scared by it.

Senger promotes 'sexting' prevention :: Fox Valley Villages Sun :: News

Maybe another case of Moral Panic as an IL rep proposes new legislation to make sexting illegal

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State Rep. Darlene Senger, R-Naperville, has filed legislation to prevent minors from "sexting,"
House Bill 4583 makes it illegal for a minor under the age of 17 to knowingly disseminate any material that depicts nudity or other sexual conduct
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- "In today's technologically-savvy culture, teens are using their cell phones to send sexual pictures without realizing the dangerous consequences, not only to their reputation but also to their future. It's necessary to create legislation that keeps up with the trends of our youth and 'sexting' is one of those trends plaguing our high schools,"
- teens today are "sexting" for different reasons than real sex offenders who are obtaining naked pictures of young children and teens. Therefore, these laws allow Certified Juvenile Youth Officers to conduct diversionary programs so that Illinois youth are not going to court for their actions and not having to register as sex offenders.
- These laws were written in order to protect today's youth against themselves, Wistocki said

NetFamilyNews

Lots of kid-tech news here for parents. She takes larger stories and gives the summary

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Justin Reich - Better Strategies Needed for School Internet Access - washingtonpost.com

an editorial on how student know how to go right around a blocked site at school while teachers can't and so the blocks hurt teachers more

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students will readily share tips for evading filters,
Facebook group "How to access Facebook from school," which has 187,000 members.
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- Under the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000, any school or library that uses federal funds to buy computers is required to install Internet filters.
- Filters prevent a great majority of teachers from gaining access to valuable online teaching tools and multimedia content
- Yet while teachers have their hands tied, students can easily wriggle into MySpace
- The best strategy for protecting students online is educating them about Internet citizenship and safety
- The other effective strategy for protecting youths online is supervision, both high-tech and old-fashioned.
- The millions of stimulus dollars to be spent on modernizing classrooms won't transform learning if students can't participate in the online forums that are reshaping the economy, journalism, government and society.
- Requiring more filtering would throw more resources at a failed approach.
- Another emerging and misguided strategy is requiring certain Web sites, such as social networks, to use age verification softwar

How Teenagers Consume Media: the report that shook the City | Business | guardian.co.uk

A 15yr old intern at Morgan Stanley did a study of teens with some expected results but laid out all at once for people to see (but often times it seems like his own opinion)

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Most teenagers nowadays are not regular listeners to radio.
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- online sites streaming music for free
- Most teenagers watch television, but usually there are points in the year where they watch more than average. This is due to programs coming on in seasons, so they will watch a particular show at a certain time for a number of weeks (as long as it lasts) but then they may watch no television for weeks after the program has ended.
- Teenagers are also watching less television because of services such as BBC iPlayer, which allows them to watch shows when they want.
- Whilst watching TV, adverts come on quite regularly (18 minutes of every hour) and teenagers do not want to watch these, so they switch to another channel, or do something else whilst the adverts run.
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- No teenager that I know of regularly reads a newspaper, as most do not have the time and cannot be bothered to read pages and pages of text while they could watch the news summarised on the internet or on TV.
- The most common console is the Wii
- PC gaming has little or no place in the teenage market.
- PC games are relatively easy to pirate and download for free, so many teenagers would do this rather than buy a game. In contrast, it is near impossible to obtain a console game for free.
- Facebook is the most common, with nearly everyone with an internet connection registered and visiting >4 times a week.
- teenagers do not use twitter. Most have signed up to the service, but then just leave it as they realise that they are not going to update it (mostly because texting twitter uses up credit, and they would rather text friends with that credit). In addition, they realise that no one is viewing their profile, so their 'tweets' are pointless.
- Outside of social networking, the internet is used primarily as a source of information for a variety of topics
- Teenagers never use real directories (hard copy catalogues such as yellow pages).
- They also do not use services such as 118 118 because it is quite expensive and they can get the information for free on the internet, simply by typing it into Google.
- Most teenagers enjoy and support viral marketing
- Outdoor advertising usually does not trigger a reaction in teenagers
- eenagers listen to a lot of music
- They are very reluctant to pay for it (most never having bought a CD) and a large majority (8/10) downloading it illegally from file sharing sites.
- Teenagers visit the cinema quite often, regardless of what is on
- This is because going to the cinema is not usually about the film, but the experience –and getting together with friends.
- Some teenagers choose to download the films off the internet, but this is not favourable as the films are usually bad quality, have to be watched on a small computer screen and there is a chance that they will be malicious files and install a virus.
- 99% of teenagers have a mobile phone and most are quite capable phones.
- As a rule, teenagers have phones on pay as you go. This is because they cannot afford the monthly payments, and cannot commit to an 18-month contract.
- Usually, teenagers only use their phone for texting, calling.
  Features such as video messaging or video calling are not used –because they are expensive,
- Teenagers do not upgrade their phone very often, with most upgrading every two years. They usually upgrade on their birthday when their parents will buy them a new phone, as they do not normally have enough money to do it themselves.

Parents, Teens and Technology - Pew Research Center

A 2007 study of internet/media between parents and teens. Covers lots of data even diff in race and household income.

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89% of online teens say the internet and other devices in their lives like cell phones, iPods, and digital cameras make their lives easier, while 71% of their parents agree.
while a majority of parents with online teens still believe the internet is a beneficial factor in their children's lives, the number of parents who see the internet as a good thing for their children has declined since 2004.
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- In most families, internet use is a subject of family rule-making and discussion.
- The content of web material, more than the time spent online, galvanizes the most parental intervention
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- Some 93% of youth are online and 94% of their parents are online. Overall, 87% of parents who have a child ages 12-17 use the internet, up from 80% in the 2004 survey.
- parents who use the internet frequently have teenage children who use the internet frequently.
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- Parents and teens own a similar number of gadgets, but parents and children in the same household do not always own the same kinds of devices.
- The majority of parents (64%) and teens (60%) in this survey own two or three gadgets
- do not own the same kind of devices
- Cell phones are the most widely-owned device among parents, followed by desktop computers. Among teens, desktop computers are the most widely-owned, followed by cell phones.
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- iPods and other MP3 playing devices, the one type of technological device that teens are more likely to own than their parents are.
- Parents with more household income and education are more likely to use the internet and have other gadgets.
- internet use among parents with teenagers correlates directly with income. Of parents who live in households earning more than $75,000 a year, 98% report that they use the internet. At the lowest end of the household income spectrum (people who earn $30,000 or less), 60% of parents report that they go online.
- White parents are more likely to report using the internet than black parents. Fully 88% of white parents say they use the internet at least occasionally, compared with 72% of black parents. Hispanic parents who speak English fall in between white and black parents, with 84% saying that they use the internet at least occasionally.
- In general, parents who are highly educated are more likely to think that email and the internet have been good things for their children than are parents with less education.
- The majority of parents are trying to stay involved with teens' online lives.
- Despite the stereotype of the clueless parent, parents of today's online teens are staying involved in their children's online lives. Some 65% of parents report that after their child has been on the internet, they check to see what websites he or she viewed. In addition, almost three quarters of parents (74%) can correctly identify whether or not their online teen has ever created his/her own social networking site profile that others can see at sites such as MySpace or Facebook.
- Parents are more concerned about media content than about the amount of time their kids spend with media devices.
- Over two-thirds of parents (68%) say they have rules about the kinds of internet sites their teenaged children can or cannot visit, as well as rules about what kinds of information their children can share with people they talk to on the internet. Three-fourths (77%) of parents say they have rules about what sort of television shows their children are allowed to watch, and 67% of all parents say they have rules about the kinds of video games their children can play.
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Technology Moral Panics: But Think Of The Children! | Techdirt

A look at the concept of "Moral Panic" from newspapers that leads to legislation

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in 1996 in which Time Magazine famously published a scare mongering article about porn online, now known as the Rimm Report
the report, which claimed that 83.5% of images online were porn was based on ridiculously faulty premises and research. It was almost entirely wrong.
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- And while Time Magazine came out of it looking bad, it didn't stop politicians from using the "moral panic" created by the article to push through the Communications Decency Act -- which after many years of wasted taxpayer money was eventually declared unconstitutional.
- newspaper basically overhypes a non-story into a "big scary trend" and almost immediately politicians start pushing for questionable "save the children!" legislation:
- I use two examples, the cyberporn panic of 1996 and the contemporary panic over online predators and MySpace, to demonstrate the links between media coverage and content legislation
- using outright incorrect or made up data, such as the idea that "50,000 sexual predators are online at any given time," a favorite of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The problem is that this number was made up out of nowhere
- 50,000 is a:
  
  "Goldilocks" figure -- "Not small and not large." He added that it was the same figure that was used by the media to describe the number of people killed annually by Satanic cults in the 1980s, and before that was cited as the number of children abducted by strangers each year in the 1970s.

What Kids Really Do Online (Despite What Parents Think)

New study looks at what parents think kids are doing online and what kids are actually doing online. Also looks at what parents are doing online.

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US moms and dads estimate that their children spend only two hours a month on the internet, but kids say they actually spend 10 times more time - or 20 hours
41% of respondents age 13-17 say their parents have no idea what they do online, and only 33% of parents worldwide say they set parental controls and monitor their children’s online activities.
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- Making friends. About a third (35%) of US online children age 8-17 have made friends online. That percentage increases as kids get older: 50% of US teens age 13-17 report making online friends. Some 33% of kids 8-17 report that they prefer to spend at least as much time with their online friends as their offline friends.
  Social-networking. More than three fourths (76%) of US teens age 13-17 “constantly,” “frequently” or “sometimes” visit social-networking sites. Worldwide, about half of boys (51%) and girls (48%) do so.
  Shopping. About one in three US children (35%) report being “very confident” or “confident” in shopping online. That number is 69% among children in China.
  Fielding requests for personal information. About four in 10 (42%) US teens age 13-17 say they have received an online request for personal information.
  Being approached by strangers. Though US adults estimate that 6% of their children have been approached online by a stranger, 16% of US children report being approached.
- “Parents are in the dark when it comes to knowing what their kids are doing online. They don’t have a clue how much time their kids are spending online,” said Marian Merritt, internet safety advocate for Symantec. “This report clearly demonstrates a global digital divide between parents and their cyber-savvy children,” she added.
- Social-networking: More than half (52%) say they had made friends online, and nearly half of those (46%) say they enjoyed those relationships as much as or more than those made offline.
  Blogging: Nearly a third (32%) worldwide work on their personal blogs at least sometimes.
  Dating: Around the world, 23% (26% of men and 19% of women) report dating online.
  Reading news: Internet users read news online at nearly an equal rate as they read it in traditional printed newspapers and magazines: 79% report reading news from online sites or blogs at least an hour a month, compared with 85% who report reading news from a printed newspaper or magazine at least one hour per month.
  Getting beauty & fashion advice: About half of users across the globe get beauty or fashion advice online at least “sometimes” (48%).
  Shopping: About half feel confident shopping online (53%), with confidence strongest in the UK (78%) and the US (63%). The region having the least amount of confidence in online shopping is Japan (33%).
  Viewing pornography: About 4 in 10 (41%) in all countries report visiting pornographic sites, with about one-half of Chinese (51%) and Brazilians (55%) reporting doing so. Globally, men (58%) are much more likely than women (18%) to say they visit porn sites.
  Gaming: Playing games online was reported by 72% of worldwide internet users.
  Emailing: Nearly all adults across all countries email at least sometimes (99%).

Spying on the Text Generation - The Boston Globe

Several real life stories of how parents are handling their "Always On" teens in a world of technology

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One mom does her best surveillance work in the laundry room.
Effective detective work? Absolutely. Effective parenting? That's less clear.
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- Teenage Research Unlimited, one-quarter of teens admitted to having texted or called their boyfriend or girlfriend hourly between midnight and 5 a.m.
- teenagers live in a state of continuous connection
- MIT professor Sherry Turkle is a leading thinker on the relationship between human beings and technology.
- "Parents were not built to know the kinds of things that technology makes possible."
- Some 75 percent of American teenagers ages 13 to 17 have cellphones, according to a 2008 survey by the research firm Yankee Group
- In Norway, according to Telenor/Statistics Norway, 87 percent of 10-year-olds now have their own cellphone
- allows direct, adult- circumvented communication at any time, whether under the desk during class or under the covers at home after lights out.
- "For grown-ups, intimacy involves a kind of privacy. For teens, they're coming up with a kind of intimacy that doesn't depend on privacy."
- (Two other things most teens I know increasingly have little use for: e-mail and voice mail. They see e-mail as something akin to the rotary phone in an elderly neighbor's house: usable if necessary, but why would you choose it when there are so many better options? And they see leaving or checking voice-mail messages as a waste of time that only parents seem to indulge, since caller ID makes it clear who called you, and texting makes it easy to transmit information.)
- Much has been made of how this interconnectivity is making teens more independent. But Turkle has come to the opposite conclusion. "The parent is always on speed dial,"
- No one is added to Jackie's IM "Buddy List" without Su- san's approval, and that list includes Susan, so she can always tell when her daughter is online.
- Jackie is allowed to visit only those websites that Susan has approved, and Susan receives a daily report of Jackie's online activity. About once a week, she logs on to Jackie's account to eyeball her e-mails and any instant messages her daughter has saved.
- "A lot of my contemporaries are reluctant to police their children's activities," Susan says. "I don't stand over her with a shotgun, but I do believe in being diligent."
- My Mobile Watchdog, which sends parents real-time copies on their own cellphones of every text message and picture sent or received on their child's phone.
- To make things more manageable, parents can elect not to receive copies of texts from people they "approve."
- he's found that predators "are moving from the PC to the cellphone" because carriers generally expunge text messages after a week or two. That makes it easier for predators to avoid getting caught.
- Teenagers have gotten pretty savvy at sussing out who is a complete stranger online.
- he knew they had been spying on him, and it didn't take long for him to determine they'd been doing it for some time. "He was pretty angry," Sam says, "He felt kind of invaded.
- "WU," "NMU," "JC" - shorthand for "What's up?" "Not much, you?" "Just chillin'
- his generation, which has refashioned the concept of time into a series of interruptions so constant that they hardly seem like interruptions anymore
- Edline, the service that Xaverian Brothers and schools across the country use to give parents continual e-mail updates on their children's academic performance.
- Calling it his "fear of God" speech, Greg warned them, "I can know everything you're doing online. But I'm not going to invade your privacy unless you give me a reason to."
- y relying on the threat of intervention rather than intervention itself, Greg has been able to avoid the drawbacks that several friends of mine told me they experienced after monitoring their teenagers' IM and text conversations.
- these parents came to the conclusion that it would be impossible for them not to think less of their kids if they continued to listen in, and that would be unfair, because their own parents never had transcripts of their teen conversations and were no worse for not knowing.
- social theorist Erving Goffman is instructive. Goffman talked about how we all have "front-stage" and "backstage" personas.
- "Everyone needs to be able to retreat to the backstage," Palen says. "These kids need to learn. Maybe they need to use bad language to realize that they don't want to use bad language. If parents are always going to be monitoring, their kids are always going to be front-stage."
- When teens get into uncomfortable territory online, they need to turn to parents for guidance and perspective. And the parents who seem connected to technology, rather than advertising their disconnect like an ever-blinking 12:00 on a VCR clock, are going to be better equipped to help.
- The Mac that Hayley uses sits in the high-traffic dining room, allowing them to keep tabs on her just by walking by.
- Because kids can remain in the loop with whole groups of their friends without actually being next to them, the urge to always be out of the house isn't as intense as it was in the days when kids roamed the town, unpoliced in packs, until curfew.

Monitor Your Child's Cell Phone, Text Messages and Email With Alerts to Unauthorized Activity with RADAR, My Mobile Watchdog

My Mobile Watchdog, which sends parents real-time copies on their own cellphones of every text message and picture sent or received on their child's phone.

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Spying on the Text Generation - The Boston Globe - PAGE 1

Parent shares how she spys on kid while doing his laundry

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One mom does her best surveillance work in the laundry room.
Effective detective work? Absolutely. Effective parenting? That's less clear.
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Dayton Daily News | Dayton, Ohio, News and Information

A look at modern day gangs using online tools to communicate (i don't see much diff than all other teens)

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many juvenile clients trading information about parties and drugs.
Vance recalls that youngsters were stunned to learn probation officers knew what they were up to — treading on what they thought was their exclusive virtual turf.
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  Helpless — a lack of self-esteem;
  
  Hopeless — a feeling of no future;
  
  Hungry — a need for nurturing and attention;
  
  Homeless — no steady place to call home; and
  
  Hugless — no love and affection in their life.
- "While Junior is text messaging on MySpace, Mom has no idea because she is not communicating with him," Vance said.

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