The relationship of social networking sites with teens and friendship.

In the article Why Youth ♥ Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life, danah boyd writes about the relationship with teenagers and social networking sites. In her article, boyd states, "In a study conducted in late 2006, they found that 55 percent of online teens aged twelve to seventeen have created profiles on social network sites with 64 percent of teens aged fifteen to seventeen." So, her question is why? Why are all these teens creating these sites and what are they using it for? In this article danah boyd will tell you about why these teens are creating these sites, and why the other teens are not creating sites.

In the article Technology In The Classroom, author Jamshed N. Lam stresses the importance of technology used with children. He states in the beginning of his article, "Currently, there are at least twenty-five million illiterate people in this country and this number is increasing rapidly." He begins to give readers more statistics of how populations will increase and how some cultures struggle and will continue to struggle in school with their literacy practice. Lam then talks about how children growing up in poor homes have a difficult time reading. Since they do not have the money to buy materials to start them early, then they start to fall behind before they even start. "In school, they fall behind at an early age and can never catch up and thus the cycle continues (Bennett, 2002)."