A recent survey found that 48% of parents friends their kids on Facebook, Mashable reports, and 56% of the parents surveyed said 16+ was the appropriate age for kids to use the social site. Twenty-six percent of parents said "over 18," 30% said ages 16-18, 30% ages 13-15, and 8% said under 13. Among findings about other social technologies, 36% of parents of teens say they ban texting at the … [Read more...] about Nearly half of parents friend their kids on Facebook
Parenting
Formspring: What’s really going on?
Nobody's completely sure – even social-media researchers who talk to teens a lot – but it is clear that the Formspring phenomenon didn't come out of nowhere. Remember those personality tests and fashion-sense quizzes in teen magazines? In the digital-age versions, danah boyd writes in DMLcentral.net, teens would – through questions and answers in pre-Web public online spaces like Usenet; "chain … [Read more...] about Formspring: What’s really going on?
Welcome to the new NetFamilyNews!
Same content, new look. I hope you like it. I understand if it takes a little getting used to, because it did for me too, but the idea is for NetFamilyNews to be more about discussion than mere content. This is, after all, the participatory Web! So I hope you'll comment, tweet, update your Facebook page (and mine) and otherwise participate in the NetFamilyNews discussion as much as possible. I … [Read more...] about Welcome to the new NetFamilyNews!
Teen files harassment charges against mom for Facebook hack
A 16-year-old in Arkansas claims his mother hacked his Facebook account, changed his password, and posted slanderous comments and personal information about him in his profile, the New York Daily News reports. His mother "claims she was just concerned about her boy's behavior" because he posted that he had driven home at 95 mph when angry at his girlfriend. The boy "lives with his grandmother … [Read more...] about Teen files harassment charges against mom for Facebook hack
‘Recombinant art,’ life?: Parenting & the digital drama overload
As Moby does with other people's sounds and musical phrases, David Shields does with words, saying that mashing up other people's words (or "recombinant" art) is much more interesting than creating fiction, which is sort of an appropriation of Mark Twain's "reality is stranger [more interesting?] than fiction." "Mr. Shields’s book consists of 618 fragments, including hundreds of quotations taken … [Read more...] about ‘Recombinant art,’ life?: Parenting & the digital drama overload