I generally think students have these pages to express themselves and interests, but not necessarily what their actual reality is.. They might talk about drinking a lot, but don't actually drink. Youth are trying on different faces to see how others react to them.
Danah Boyd
Don't go on and engage in surveillance. That makes things really hard for kids to engage with you as a parent.
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If you have a 50-year-old man connecting to a bunch of 15-year-old girls, that's something you can look at.
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If you do it in peer-level approach, rather than a condescending control approach, you'll have much more success.
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You don't want to create controlling situations, because what these kids are trying to do is create a space outside of parental control.
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There's something new going on in this networking technology, and it's really fantastic.
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