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January 18, 2006
yikes! teenagers are using the internet!
From a Washington Post article on the dangers of teen blogging:
Blogs abound with seductive poses and confessions of love, hate and everything in between.
so i read this article in the newspaper? i know it's hard to believe because teenagers supposedly don't read newspapers, but i totally did! anyway. it was about about how blogs are all scary and bad or whatever and i was like "how come the people who write these articles seem like they've never actually been on the interweb?" LOL! because that's how it seems. one of the scary examples was about some girl who wrote about getting drunk and how it makes you throw-up sometimes. OMG! is that the best you can do? cuz it's not very good. and doesn't it seem like every couple of months adults (and particularly adults who happen to be reporters) freak out majorly about teenagers and the internet? just put those two words together -- teenagers and internet -- and you've got the makings of a special A1 report that will shake heads and furrow brows all across our "very concerned" nation! of course there are dangers and, yes, teenagers (and everyone else, for that matter) should be cautious about what they post for public consumption -- but come on! most teenagers have really mundane livejournal blogs in which they discuss their hair or write lame poetry or gossip about who likes whom (although very few of them would use the words "mundane" or "whom"). it's mostly a good thing. really.
people need to chill or whatever.
Posted by teb at January 18, 2006 02:47 PM