So, there has been some recent (fairly recent, anyhow) speculation on whether or not teens are aware of the lesser-known dangers of public domains, such as the facebook, and the myspace. And, of course, The Twitter. The "Three Thes," as a generation of concerned parents so lovingly call them (If they don't, I think that they should).
I think and article I read recently called "Are we too paranoid about Facebook?" said it best. There are certainly reasons for which we should be worreid about privacy and websites of that ilk, but we have the means with which to avoid the flow of information that is readily available to the general populace. It really is as simple as a quick browsing of your privacy settings.
These sites, I believe, are a good -- if not wonderful -- place for social intearction. Albeit, not necessarily social interaction of the live, person-to-person variety, but social interaction nonetheless. In fact, facebook and its, well, I'll call them "cohorts" for now, have, in some adverse parental-unit mind-destroying kind of way, brought the world together.
All photos courtesy of the sites with which they are associated (i.e: Facebook.com, myspace.com, and twitter.com.)
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