‘Why Youth Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life’

July 17, 2008 deborahmasty
Tags: message, vocubulary

If i were teaching high school students, I would definately use WordPress.com. I might use Facebook cause i feel it has more of an awareness of maturity with it. I am not to sure about Bebo cause of the layout. I mean some of the things that are on Bebo is a bit too much from my point of view, such as adding the stickerz that people are sending each other on bebo,the vocubulary is often a bit too much. You see photos of people that are having a party at a home when there are children there. Those kinds of photos bother me cause the message that is being set there is disturbing for me, i mean what kind of message are the youth getting from that?. It also makes me wonder when a person that you know is working for youth in your community and they have photos of themselves partying, getting high, what are the youth learning from that?. So therefore i am not to keen on using bebo as an education tool for the youth in our community unless you can control the usage of it. WordPress would be a great way of having them explore with what we have been leaning about using video as to teaching. It would be a great if we had the right kind of equipment to use in the classroom, well atleast for the highschool students.