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Jan 8, 2007The Mercury News
"Who says teens don't care about online privacy?
Since MySpace.com took off three years ago, parents have fretted about online risks to their children's safety, requesting meetings with local police and school officials to talk about Intern...
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Jan 8, 2007St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Today's teens often are viewed as a MySpace-crazed crowd with a tendency to plaster compromising information online for all to see.
C'mon, let's give these kids a little credit.
Many U.S. teens don't use social networking Web sites ...
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Jan 7, 2007Reuters.com
"More than half of U.S. teenagers use social networking sites like MySpace, but girls go online to reaffirm existing friendships, while boys are more often there to flirt, a survey published on Sunday has found.
The national survey of youth...
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Jan 7, 2007Houston Chronicle
"For 17-year-old Amanda Sanchez, social networking is an obsession, a distraction — and when she moved to a new town last summer, it was her lifeline.
"Over the summer, MySpace was my best friend," says the high school junior, who lives in ...
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Jan 7, 2007BBC News.com
"More than half of all net-using American teenagers use social networking sites, research suggests.
The study for the Pew Internet Project involved 935 teenagers and found 55% of American youths aged 12-17 had accounts at sites such as MySp...
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Jan 7, 2007Financial Times
"Many parents of teenagers are used to berating their children for spending too much time on the internet, and for revealing too much about themselves on publicly available social networking sites such as MySpace.com.
Now, in a study releas...
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Jul 20, 2006Washington Post
They consider themselves digital natives.
They're young. They're addicted to instant messaging and social networks. And they're more apt to dish about the drama at last night's party than the president's latest faux pas.
Blog...
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Jul 20, 2006The New York Times
Despite a potentially vast audience in cyberspace, the Pew project found that 52 percent of bloggers said they blogged mostly for themselves. When asked for a major reason for blogging, 52 percent said it was to express themselves creatively and ...
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Jul 19, 2006Slate
When I hear the word "bloggers," I tend to think of the A-listers. But the top 100 are not the quarry of the Pew Internet & American Life Project telephone survey of bloggers, published today. They're stalking the larger universe of 12 million adu...
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Jul 19, 2006Boing Boing
The amazing Pew Internet Life project has just released a study on blogging in the USA -- it's full of really chunky stats compiled from phone interviews with bloggers: "most bloggers are primarily interested in creative, personal expression -- do...
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