EXPAND 3:Teens Wear Their Heart on Their Blog

Kornblum, J. (2005, October 30). Teens wear their heats on their blog. USA Today. Retrieved from http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2005-10-30-teen-blogs_x.htm

This article in USA today was a fairly old article in technological standards but still a good one. Written in 2005 it describes how 8 millions teens blog, which by now in 2011, this number would have gone way up. This article mainly implies myspace as the site for blogging and social network which isn't used as much anymore. This article brings to light the fact that these teens are doing things on their blogs that they once did through personal diaries, phone calls, hanging out etc. Another person stated that blogs are like reality TV for the web. Because teens are using blogs as personal online diaries, parents are concerned as they should be to keep up on what their children are doing. Students love putting their personal emotions on their blog. I could see blogs as being used as a good connection between home and school. Especially in connection with this chapter in Brooks-Young about Creative Content - Writing, blogs are quickly becoming a common tool in the classroom. Parents want to learn what students are learning and usually students don't want to tell them anything. A blog could become a spring board for parents to child communication as well as student to teacher. Students could pour out their emotions and their frustrations with hope that someone will read them and reach out with hope or a solution. As with the parents reading them, I feel like since the child is willing to put everything on the world wide web for all to see, the parents should have a right to see what is going on. This article closes with the thought that what these students are doing is nothing new, teens have been doing this for years on end, but it just depends on what we as a society do with it all and it will be interesting to see what happens next.