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"As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited."

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.

In this artcle, Katie Ellis discusses about the advantages of Facebook compared to other social networking sites. Facebook reveal the true identities of people with the use of their real names and personal information. Also, Facebook users choose to represent themselves in certain ways by their updates.

The news that TiVo is to stop selling its digital video recorders (DVRs) in "Britain looks like final proof that the device has flopped. Best-known for its ad-skipping ability, TiVo also bred a scary new television culture in which the intelligent set-top box guesses your tastes and records viewing on your behalf." This is from the abstract. I found this journal article interesting.

In this article it mainly talks about the new invention in the Microsoft Xbox 360 system. This invention is only for the Xbox 360 and it scans your body so that your body can be the controller. This has made a huge impact on other systems like the Nintendo Wii or the playstation Move. But those systems require a remote control not your own body. Also it explains how the Xbox kinect has many games that copies real life activities. It even has many weight loss activities that you can do and the kinect has made a social change by making your body the remote so that you don't have to be just sitting on the couch all day eating chips.

This article is mainly about a man who thought of an idea to teach kids to make video games and in that same process be educated by learning engineering, digital literacy, math, and any other knowledge that is needed to make a video game. The plan is to have kids make these video games revolving important issues affecting the world, such as nutrition, the ecosystems, and so much more.

I hope this Worked!!

This article talks about the profanity in video games and how it effects video games.

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

In this video a guy named Julian Smith, talks about 25 things on facebook that appeals unnecessary to him. He explains that there are things that shouldn't even happen on facebook like people poking, tagged photos, and relative request. Social networking can be good in some cases, but not all the time, in this video he actually speaks for alot of people. No one wants their family members checking their facebook telling other people their business. There is not 1 person who wants permission before an inappropriate picture is tagged on their page. Not every 1 likes to be poked on facebook as well. He made this video to show that alot people social network and do unnecessary things to benefit them selves and make others uncomfortable or unhappy on facebook.

This short article talks about how terrorist are now starting to use the internet to plan, network, and even raise money to be able to bomb the United States instead of trying to destroy it (the internet).

This article explains about how the internet should take religion as a more serious topic because religion is an important topic for many people.

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.

Dangers of cyber bullying brought with electronic media, and how it can sometimes create psychological trauma for adolescents .

This article truely indicates the reasons that why people don't help in a crisis.

Article discusses bullies online and how there are starting so young, middle school students. Already getting caught up in feel what it feels like to not feel safe, even when they are online.

In this video, it clearly shows how new music in today's society is influenced, sampled & remixed through old "classic" music.

I found this article to be very appealing; it discusses how the media provides an important background for the social, emotional, and cognitive development of youth with socilized neworks. He also states how facebook affects college students in today's culture.

In this article it explains why people change identities and how easy it is to lie about basic info through the internet.