The video segment, “Growing Up Online”, by Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio is about showing how teenagers use the internet today and most parents have no idea about there child’s life online. The view in the video comes from parents, students, and teaching staff at high schools at the beginning of the film one of the teachers say, “ Its not going away, its not just a passing fad.” This video was taped in 2008 and it has shown to be true that the internet for young teens is not just going away. We are now in 2010 and the internet as gotten bigger and more span of things to do online then ever before, it shows that is wasn’t just a fad. In the video there was a lot of concern from the parents that students were doing the wrong things online and that they are going to be picked up by a predator. “Most kids aren’t looking for trouble online they just delete the ones that try talking to them in a weird way.” That in today’s society teens online really do know how to get away from the creeps and keep to their social networks with just there friends. They don’t find much harm of deleting the person and moving on from it as many adults would thing of that as wrong. They said that the internet was the “greatest gap since rock and roll.” This is why parents don’t understand the internet they way young people do because it has been slowly introduced to them, while young people are emerged into the scene. One young lady on the video had a eating disorder and would talk to people online from her school that shouldn’t want talk to in person. “Social networking is away to have another identity.” You could be who ever you wanted online to someone and be someone else in really life. Its easy because they don’t know you true identity with you over cyber chat, you make it what you want to be. That in this day and age in the internet is more of a pressure and thrill for teenagers then anything before this time.
I have grown up with the social networking all around me. Starting in middle school with the whole Myspace thing. I remember saying my parents if I could get one they said, no because it was a danger and they had no way to control it. As any teenage girl I hide it behind their back and made one anyways at my best friends house. I was so addicted I had to check it all the time even when I was at home. During that time I didn’t know what internet history was, but my mom sure did and she found out I made one and I got in a little trouble. Then next came the cell phone time. I was heavily involved in playing softball, I was on select team, recreation teams, and school teams. It got so busy my parents had no clue a lot of the time what was going on, so they decided to get me a cell phone my 7th grade year that gained me so much freedom. Until this was the time my parents had no clue what texting was until they got a $400 dollar bill in the mail from the cell phone company for tons of chargers of texting. Now that is really the only way I have conversations with people unless there mass serious. I also keep in touch with a lot of my friends through face book. Since we graduated last year a lot of us have moved on with our life going to school, starting in the work force, and even staying home. It is a great way to jump on a social network like face book and see how people are doing. Without the cell phone and social networking I don’t know what I would do with my life.
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