I've spent a lot of time browsing around sites like LiveJournal, MySpace, and others, not looking for anything in particular, just trying to get to know cyberspace (in most other jobs, this would be known as 'time wasted surfing the net' - I'm lucky that way). People should do this - there are so many interesting and wonderful people on the net! So I appreciate the work done by Liz Ditz (via Will Richardson and Josie Fraser) to bring to light just what the dangers are of these sites to students. And from my perspective, this seems right: "the risk (of a sexual predator) to an individual teen is vanishingly small... but the fear-mongering goes on." More to the point, students are much more likely to be harassed or even bullied by other students - but, "if you take away MySpace, kids are still going to be rude, ostracize some of their peers, and say hurtful things." The last two parts have not been completed, but read the first four and see if you disagree: Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV; Part V; Part VI.
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