NetFamilyNews.orgAn article in the medical journal Pediatrics this month makes significant additions to what we know about youth risk online in two areas: parenting and risk factors for older teen girls (the sample was girls 14-17). The authors of “Association of Maltreatment With High-Risk Internet Behaviors and Offline Encounters” pointed to what we already know: [...]
This is and isn’t about technology. Mostly isn’t. But digital media allow for and expose a dangerous blend of two very different aspects of humanness, one destructive, the latter normative: social cruelty and teenage vulnerability (a lot of focus recently having been on the female variety). The cruelty, the extreme version called trolling – which [...]
This article was originally published February 24, 2012, then my service’s server crashed, losing months of data. So reposting 10/31/12. There is no data cited, but the San Francisco Chronicle’s Mommy Files blog reports that “a growing number of tweens and teens, mainly girls, are posting videos on YouTube asking commenters if they’re ugly.” Writer [...]
Contrary to what many people new to social media seem to believe, the social Web doesn’t have a drastic effect on identity formation – see what the new sociology of childhood has to say.
This isn’t about social technology, like most of what I blog about, but it is about life and adolescent development, and teen use of social tech is mostly about life, so this is important for parents to know: time with their parents is a good things, teens said in a recent survey by Family Circle, [...]
In adjusting to a media environment very different from the mass-media one we grew up in, we adults have created some monsters. They’re large, intimidating “creatures” that threaten the mutually respectful parent-child and educator-student communication that young people want and deserve in this highly participatory, sometimes overwhelming new media environment. One of the monsters is [...]
I think it’s not so much taking a break from technology as it is from high school drama – though social networking does make it easy to have the drama in their faces 24/7, if they allow it to. The New York Times tells of two high school juniors in San Francisco who, “by mutual [...]
If our kids text, 80% of us do too, according to The Nielsen Company. Nielsen doesn’t say why, but we all know: Our kids “hear” us better when we text them, and – besides – it’s fun to text with them! Here’s some more interesting cellphone data from Nielsen: Phone owners are getting younger: Last [...]
Teens do not want a late-night fit of anger channeled into a few seconds’ worth of clicks on a cellphone to lead to anything close to what happened to Phillip Alpert, who will be in Florida’s sex offender registry until he’s 43, CNN reports. He told CNN he had just turned 18, he was tired, [...]
A professor of pediatrics said she was a little surprised by how much information about risky behaviors teens post online – information for all to see but that their doctors struggle to get out of them. In a random selection of 500 MySpace profiles of people who say on their pages they’re 18, Dr. Megan [...]
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