Saturday, March 12, 2011
VIrtual High School
Today is a new age of technology. Social neworks, blogs, chat rooms, twitters, IMing, all of these new ways of communicstion are creating a different world for today's young generation. The girls in this young generation use these mediums as ways to communicate and gossip with friends, express their sexuality, express their identity and some even use it as a means of bullying as well as a research tool. The new age of technology has created a "virtual hhigh school" with all the typical characteristics of a girls experiences in high school, only in digital form. This blog will discuss all of these ideas of a girl being in high school online. Please feel free to comment and post different ideas on this subject throughout this blog.
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What concerns me as a parent is the difficulty in monitoring young girls problems. How can you help to protect your child from sexual predators, etc., unless you are savy also in all these new technologies? Unfortunately, many of us "older" adults aren't as up-to-date with these, and I fear our younger children will be in major harm's way from those seeking to contact the naive young girls. Just recently I heard about an appalling trend that predators were stealing emails & cell phone numbers to text for a meeting with their friends. Turns out, the victim was actually not meeting their friend, but a predator who was waiting to abuse them.
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