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No place for Myspace
1/8/2007 | 
Coverage
Julio Ojeda-Zapata, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Life & Home
'"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 like MySpace.com and Facebook.com, according to a study released late Sunday by the Washington, D.C.-based Pew Internet & American Life Project.
And most who are logging on to these services are careful about what information they put on their pages and who gets to see it, researchers learned.
The study's findings were culled from a recent survey of youth ages 12 to 17, with the results surprising at least one of the report's authors, Pew senior research specialist Amanda Lenhart.
Teens are "definitely not monolithic" where youth-oriented social networking sites are concerned, Lenhart said.
Lindsey Dommeyer, a 16-year-old Woodbury High School student, steers clear of MySpace, Bebo, Sconex and other sites her peers use to communicate with each other. She did have a Xanga account at one time but let it lapse.
"If there's something I need to tell my friends, I can call them or e-mail them," Dommeyer said. She did like Xanga for a time but eventually "figured it was useless, and I got rid of it."
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