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This website is made of a survey done by The National Campaign. This sight has all of the facts. The articles states that this "sexting is the new craze" . These students aren't even high school. I like this website because it gives me facts of the people in this world, I know it is a small survey compared to the entire world but they are good statistics to work with. There is a movie called The Odd Girl Out. This movie portrays how harmful this subject is. This teenage girl starts high school and "makes friends". She soon finds out that these friends are fakes. She chops her hair off, she over doses on sleeping medication all because these "friends" are calling her fat and other degrading words.

This article is about young teen girls shaping their identities around fashion through blogs.

This source is useful and helpful when researching about the usage of social networking among teenagers (boys and girls) from the ages 12-17. It explains and gives examples and key facts between teenage boys and teenage girls and their differences of usage on the social networking.

Talks about and research on why girl doesn't play games like boy do.

An interesting way to point out the 'inner girl' in all of us.

Creates games for young girls. This helps them think about what kind of life is out there waiting for them and shows them what they want to become as a teenager.

In the book The Trouble With Boys, author Peg Tyre discusses boy's problems at school and what parents and educators must do. By interviewing hundreds of parents, children, experts and teachers, Tyre offers diverse explanations and facts on why the educational system is failing boys. This book is written in 20 informative chapters that provide important facts on ADHD, the necessity of recess, the vanishing male teacher, single-sex schooling and boys and literacy. In Chapter 11: Boys and Literacy, Tyre begins with scary statistics showing that boys have consistently scored less well than girls on tests measuring reading and writing. She also argues that the "male literacy gap" is not a new problem and may be spawning a national crisis. This is becoming a national crisis because "high-level reading and writing skills are essential not only to economic success but to economic survival" (135). Tyre then asks who or what is to blame for "the male reading deficit." Is it biology? Is it culture? The only clear answer is the "small differences get amplified by the careless, and sometimes crushing, messages that boys often get about the importance of reading from their parents, teachers and communities" (142). Boy's conclusions about reading and writing are shaped through schooling and home attitudes towards literacy.

Imagine a suburban neighborhood at sunset. A police car drives past a quaint one-story home. The children inside are so precious; their parents would do anything to protect them. When chil- dren are at home, they should be safe. But what about the internet? A man at the end of the information super- highway sits in a dark room and with glazed eyes, he sits typing this to someone's blond daughter: Scott16: When can we meet 4 real? LizJones13: Tomorrow after soccer? LizJones13: Let's meet at 4 Scott16: I'll be there.

This article talks about how young adolescents are constantly trying to find their own identity. They are always trying new roles to find out who they are. In this day and age many people are doing this by the use of technology. It talks about how people shape their image through myspace and other social networks. One girl named Isabella makes her site very elaborate and full of colors while boys of her age usually base their site around sports heros and masculine things. It further goes on to describe how adolescents shape their identities through technology.

In this talk Chellman talks about why girls have a better chance at succeeding in school than boys; and how should we change our methods of teaching today to improve the boys chances of success. She states that some of the reasons why this is happening is because, there are more female teachers than male teachers so they enforce their ideas on the boys. She goes on to say that there should be more input into creating video games which is something that boys are interested in as a source of teaching.

The online social networking site MySpace has received more hits and more media coverage than any of its social networking counterparts, including Facebook and Friendster, and is in fact, one of the most visited sites on the Web because it allows its users to create media and construct identity easily while sharing their interests with other users and the world.

In the video clip from TED talks Ali Carr-Chellman, an associate professor of education discusses how we can use something that is popular with boys to engage them in learning; because in schools today curriculum are set towards girls achieving more than boys.

In this video Ali Carr-Chellman talks about how boys aren't succeeding in their education and how gaming isn't the cause for this problem.

This article talks about how teens flirt with each other and how a boy and a girl are dating they update their relationship status to "in a relationship" and show each other affection by posting a comment saying how much they love each other!