Facebook for Facebook's sake – for something to do – is one way some teens use the site, some in wealthier Nashville communities, for example, according to some early observations in social media researcher danah boyd's current field work. "Teens who are more likely to be stuck at home ... are ... much more likely to sit and chat on Facebook because it’s Facebook." They're also texting at … [Read more...] about Fresh insights into teen social media use
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Clarity in the Craigslist story
In a post earlier this week, I suggested that doing what many people, including attorneys general, have somewhat understandably called for in the name of defeating human trafficking and prostitution – deleting Craigslist's Adult Services section – would do little to solve the problem. But writing in the Huffington Post, social media researcher danah boyd – who herself has been victimized, she … [Read more...] about Clarity in the Craigslist story
For perspective: Snapshot of Brazil’s social networking
Facebook's now taking off there, but Brazil has had a vibrant, more mainstream social networking scene for some time, maybe even longer than the US has – because of Google's Orkut. When danah boyd's new article about class divisions in US social networking reached Pedro Augusto of Brazil's Center for Technology & Society in Rio, he emailed her about how this works in his country; she posted … [Read more...] about For perspective: Snapshot of Brazil’s social networking
Let’s avoid a ‘privacy panic’
Because media are increasingly social, media users are more and more public. So – although some publics (like Justin Bieber's or Taylor Swift's) are bigger than others – we all have publics now, as social media researcher danah boyd pointed out in the middle of the past decade. I hope by now that parents, or at least the parents who read my blog, have heard that what media users want is not either … [Read more...] about Let’s avoid a ‘privacy panic’
US senator calls for Facebook ‘panic button’ too
As did UK members of Parliament, US Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) is now calling on Facebook to create a "panic button" for the US like the one FB's putting in place for UK users, reports HometownSource.com in Minnesota. Only it's not a "button" or a 9-1-1-type helpline; it's an app that users would need to download, as I wrote earlier this week. So it needs marketing to create uptake, which is fine – … [Read more...] about US senator calls for Facebook ‘panic button’ too