'Tis the season for surveys about online teens, it seems. Several have just been released, but the biggest news in Net safety this week was the much-anticipated "Second Youth Internet Safety Survey" (the first, much-quoted, study came out in 2000) from the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, sponsored by the US government-funded National Center for Missing & … [Read more...] about Teens online: Major study
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Teen reputations, jobs at risk
The two biggest risks for kids on social networks are cyberbullying (among young teens) and reputation tarnish for high school and college students. Teens need to become their own spin doctors in this age of overexposure - fast. "Researching students through social networking sites [is] now fairly typical," reports the New York Times in a front-page article Sunday. "Many career counselors have … [Read more...] about Teen reputations, jobs at risk
Texting & romance
Is it appropriate to say "I love you" for the first time or break up a relationship via text message? Or even ask someone out? These are the questions that plague the digital generation, not to mention avid phone texters, males and females alike. But the former are more likely to let the text do the heavy lifting, where Net-aided romance is concerned, USATODAY reports, citing fresh research from … [Read more...] about Texting & romance