The blog I am writing about this week is titled "Social Networks and Kids: How Young is too Young?" on cnn.com. This is a very interesting topic because it is a rather big issue in society today. There are lots of parents out there that do not realize how many people are on facebook or other social networking websites today. They also do not know how "in" social networking is today. If you are a teenager and you do not have a facebook account, people will tell you to make one until you do.
However, how young is too young? This article does a great job of explaining the facts to you and quoting parents who have children around the ages of 10-15 or so. Doug Gross, who wrote this blog, also uses studies and surveys to make his blog that much better. Gross finds that there is a "children's facebook" called KidSwirl and this social networking site is being used by children five years of age.
I think that Gross is trying to make a point. He is saying that technology is ever changing and that social networking is the new craze in the world today but five years old? To me, they are going to make an account on these sites eventually but the parents really need to keep a track of what their five year old child is doing on a site like KidSwirt of facebook. I believe Gross is trying to say the same thing.
Subrahmanyam states at the bottom of the blog that "We've lost the control group. How do you find a group of kids that are not using the computer?" Gross and Subrahmanyam make a great point. I am sure that they can find a lot of families that do not even own in a computer somewhere in the world but this is where our world is heading with all this technology. The computer is changing the world so quickly it is scary and either directly or indirectly, this is what Gross is trying to say and he did a great job doing it.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/02/kids.social.networks/index.html
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