Teens Can Now Put a “Keep Out” Sign on Their Blogs
Yes, now teens can put a lock and key on their blogs. According to the March 29th, 2005 AOL Business Wire Press Release, “ Eighty four percent of teens said they would not be willing to share their blog with just anyone on the open web. In response to these findings AOL's RED service offers a refreshing way to create a blog in a 'velvet rope' environment and gives teens and parents the option to choose between different levels of privacy, ranging from private, semi-private and public.”
Hmmm…this all sounds good. I wonder if teachers could use this lock and key method to contain blogs within their classroom parameters as well? Here’s the website of the article. It is noteworthy to check out. Specific findings from the AOL/DMS "Teens & Communications Survey" are also on the site. However, when you read the bottom of the page it says, “parents were instructed to allow their children to answer the survey questions while they supervised.” Alas, one wonders what the data would have been if the parents were supervising while their kids were taking the survey. I’m sure the kids would probably want to keep out their parents on their blogs too…but this is just speculation. I’m curious to know what y’all think? Overall, I think that AOL may have a hit with their new blog service. Once again thank you all for visiting Teachers, Blogs & the Law. : )
America Online's Red Service for Teens Introduces New Blog Product
http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050329005147&newsLang=en
posted by Mechelle De Craene @ 3:15 PM
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Did you Know...............
1 out of 5 kids has been sexually solicited online (NOT JUST GIRLS).
1 out of 4 kids has been sent a picture of naked people or people having sex online.
That May 21, 2002 there was the first death of a child linked directly to an Internet Predator?
Every one would love the world to be perfect and great but with the good come the bad. All we can do is hope for the best and be proactive in preventing the bad things from happening. I can tell you that we think we know what our kid are thinking and doing. Do not be one of the parents that says my child would never do that ( they are kids and will try things even when you tell them not to do it).
My little brothers and sister are a good example! They had it made........My father and stepmother had a little computer knowledge but not much ( at this time in the past the only things you had to really worry about was internet porn because chat rooms, messengers and blogs were not around or very few were) and they tried to do there best to keep them from going to internet porn. THEY DID NOT!!! They thought they did but my brothers were smarter than my parents and could erase their tracks.
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