[Air-l] teens and myspace

[danah boyd]

No... but it seems to be to every flipping out parent in the country.

Remember: online is *scary*. ::shudder:: We must ban it and stop it  
and protect our children!  They are going to be raped and tortured  
and kidnapped and molested!  These scary people aren't in our  
neighborhood - they are all online!!!

::sigh::

As for this finding... remember, some findings are obvious, but it's  
still nice to find them in data.  I had never seen stats on these  
practices before starting all of this.  And it's nice to learn about  
how bullying plays out now and compare it over the ages and across  
all technologies.

Of course, it's important to note that quite a few teens have bought  
into their parent's paranoia and think that the online world is  
somehow more dangerous.  That's *very* frustrating to me... Then  
again, perception is more important than data when it comes to fear.

danah


On Mar 1, 2006, at 1:39 PM, Ellis Godard wrote:

> Danah Boyd wrote:
>> What i'm finding is that they are facing many of the same
>> consequences online that they've always faced offline.
>
> Is that surprising to them? Or to you?
>
> -eg
>
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