News: What Teens Are Doing In MySpace
News/Social Networks/Youth Trends/Myspace
Found on: cbsnews.com
Exactly what are teens doing on sites like MySpace? If you ask them, they'll most likely tell you they're "just hanging out."
Hanging out on MySpace and other social-networking sites is sort of like networking in the adult sense of the word, except that teens aren't reaching out to their extended network of friends with some purpose in mind, as we think of it. Instead, they're engaged in conveniently asynchronous but also real-time collective and interactive self-expression. Whew — it's not easy being a teenager! Let's take a look at what this self-expression is all about, from teens' and the experts' points of view.
MySpace profiles represent teenagers' online selves — not so much an extension of who they are but who they see themselves to be at the moment, expressed in comments, photos, and music.
Found on: cbsnews.com
Exactly what are teens doing on sites like MySpace? If you ask them, they'll most likely tell you they're "just hanging out."Hanging out on MySpace and other social-networking sites is sort of like networking in the adult sense of the word, except that teens aren't reaching out to their extended network of friends with some purpose in mind, as we think of it. Instead, they're engaged in conveniently asynchronous but also real-time collective and interactive self-expression. Whew — it's not easy being a teenager! Let's take a look at what this self-expression is all about, from teens' and the experts' points of view.
MySpace profiles represent teenagers' online selves — not so much an extension of who they are but who they see themselves to be at the moment, expressed in comments, photos, and music.
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