Should You Know What Social Networking is?
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The sharing aspect of these sites are not only their good side but also
their bad side as well. In the last year many schools and parents have
become alarmed at the content of some of these MySpace sites that
students have built. In typical teen fashion some kids say on their site
what probably should not be said in public. They post as though it were
a diary and then it gets spread around. That means that hate and
meanness spread within the community quickly. Some schools have cracked
down and told students they would be expelled if they do not clean up
their sites. Parents, just finding out about the technology and checking
it out for the first time become alarmed at the things that are said on
these postings.
Of course that aspect comes back to the old thing of parents needing to
be in tune with their kids and what is going on in their world. You
cannot give a kid a computer and internet access and then walk away and
not pay any attention.
The other thing that has raised alarm in this world of social networking
is kids will post news of a party in their area, to their site. Instead
of getting to "just" their friends it ends up spreading to the whole
area. Homes have been overrun by crowds of kids trying to attend
parties. One such event even ended with a fatal stabbing when the crowd
got too big and unruly.
Now these are the type of things that can happen with or without such
social networking sites in teen’s lives. These sites are not going to
fade away. MySpace has over 60 million subscribers and was recently
bought by a major corporation. They intend to make a lot of money off
these sites for years to come. After all it is a very juicy target
market for advertising revenue.
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