Parents express concern over teen blogging
C. Jeffrey MacDonald (Christian Science Monitor) writes in an article on USA Today:
Earlier this year, 13-year-old Shannon Sullivan of Wood-Ridge, N.J., was socializing in the same way as dozens of her classmates at Our Lady of the Assumption School. She maintained a personalized page on a Web site that contained her photograph and details about what makes her unique. Friends would surf by and leave fun messages.
But then her mother found out. And now her site, and those of her friends — once lovingly adorned with everything from sound bites to video clips — are fast disappearing at the insistence of their safety-minded parents.
"They're not aware how easily something [predatory] can happen over the Internet," says Shannon's mother, Margaret, who is a computer-science teacher at Assumption. "They really shouldn't have these sites. Maybe when they're older, in college or something, but it's just not safe before that."
posted by Fergie @ 5/25/2005 10:25:00 AM
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