Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes

  

    The article "Cracking Teenagers Online Codes" is about a 34 year old lady named Danah Boyd. She is a senior researcher at Microsoft, and an assistant professor at New York University. She is also a fellow at the Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard.   One important thing about Danah is that she is the first anthropologist who has come from the tribe that she studies. This means that she knows a lot about what she is studying because she has lived that life.
      Danah is studying the online world and how the internet effect teenagers. In this article Danah discuss how parents, teachers, and schools worry about teenagers posting their lives away. Danah say that adults are worrying about the wrong things. She states that "we need to give kids the freedom to explore and experience things online that might actually help them."
     I agree with Danah and I disagree with her as well. My Reason is because, yes, a lot of parents do worry about their teenagers being online and I believe that they should be worried. There are a lot of things that teens are doing online that their parent’s don’t know about. For example they could be online chatting with a child molester. Or they can be video chatting with grown men, or doing something that they are not supposed to be doing. Which a lot of teenagers are doing today. I also agree, because there are also a lot of benefits of being on the internet. You can learn a lot of things from the internet, and it can be helpful in many ways.

Danah says that “Letting your child out to bike around the neighborhood is seen as terrifying now, even though by all measures, life is safer for kids today.

            Yes, I agree. I believe that the crimes have gone down and that’s another reason why I think kids should go out more, instead of spending all their time on the internet.
However I do believe that parents think that all the things teenagers do on the internet is bad. And they believe that we are doing something wrong. Danah says that “Teenagers are not some alien population, when we see new technologies; we think they make everything different for young people. But they really don’t. Teenagers are the same as they always were.
And I agree!
A question that I still have for Danah is why do you think the internet is such a great source for teenagers? Do you know the things that are going on in the world today sue to the internet?
 

"Facebook Breakups"

The article "Teaching kids How to Break up Nicely" is telling about facebook breakups. They wonder should you delete the pictures of your ex after breaking up? Is it okay to un-friend your last girlfriend if you  cant stop looking at her profile? This article states many ways that can make young teenagers break up. Alot of the teenagers in this article let facebook mess up there relationship. Roberto said that "racing to update your relationship status after a breakup is a healthy behavior. In my opinion, I dont agree with Roberto. My reason is because if you are rushing home to change your realtionship status after a breakup that can affect how the other person feels. Maybe they wanted to get back together. Changing the status so fast is just not healthy in some situtions.
I believe that their is a nice way to break up with someone but putting it on facebook is just not a good way. That is just hurtful and some what embarrassing for the person who's heart is being broke. Facebook is one of the main reasons why kids break up in the first place. Mainly because everyone can be in your business and people can post anything on your wall, which can make your girlfriend or boyfriend want to break up.
In the article they say that when kanye West and Amber Rose broke up, West wrote a means song about her. Yung teenagers do the same thing on facebook. If they break up, they write mean statuses about them. Thats why i think people should leave their relationships off facebook!
In conclusion, I say that the nicest way to break up with someone is by being honest and doing it in person, never do it over facebook. It makes everything worst.

Love & Hip Hop : )

Love & Hip Hop is one of the most popular TV shows. According to AllHipHopNews.com "The controversial second season of “Love & Hip Hop” scored high ratings for VH1, which attracted over 4 million viewers." The show Love & Hip Hop follows women who are dating rappers or are in the hip hop music business. The show features Chrissy Lampkin, who is dating Jim Jones. Olivia Longott, a singer. Emily Bustamante who dated the rapper Fabulous. Somaya Reece,  Kimbella Vanderhee ,who’s dating rapper Juelz Santana and Yandy Smith Jim Jones  manager.Love and Hip Hop is one of my favorite shows. Its showing how hard it really is to be in love with someone in the music business and it’s even harder to be IN the business. The girls on love in Hip Hop are often judged and disrespected in their personal and professional relationships.  I think that this show is very interesting, through all the fights and drama its shows how life can be in the real world. Another reason why I love this show is because they show couples real lives and how they stay together through all the drama in the hip hop industry. Some of the girls have to deal with their men leaving them all the time because they are doing business, or they even deal with their men cheating on them. One of the women on this show even dealt with her own mother in law, making a disrespectful song talking about how she dislikes her. And then she made a mean video to go with the song. I believe that this show brings out the good and bad of being in the music business, and that’s why I like it!

2011 judgement day

One of the biggest stories of 2011 was the day the world was going to end. Harold Camping predicted that the judgment day would take place on May 21, 2011 and the end of the world would take place 5 months later on October 21, 2011. Harold’s prediction drew national attention. He was all over the news and radio stations. According to Camping’s website FamilyRadio.com he stated, “What really happened is that God accomplished exactly what he wanted to happen. That was to warn the whole world that on May 21 Gods salvation program would be finished on that day."

I truly believe that this was the biggest story of 2011 for many reasons. Everyone was talking about this day. However many people didn’t pay it no mind. Including a lot of Christians. They believe that no man will know the day or hour the world will come to an end. Only God would know.

This was an extremely important day for me. It affected me in many ways. When I heard Harold’s prediction about the world ending I was horrified. I was one of the people who actually believed that the world might really come to an end, and I was very upset. The first thing I did when I herd about the world coming to an end was went on Google to got more information about. Then I asked my parents what was going on. Everybody would tell me that the world was not going to end and that they always make predictions like this. However, I didn't listening to anybody and I had a feeling that it was over. I kept crying and worrying about Harold’s prediction and it really affected my life. When the day came I sat outside for a long time waiting for the world to end and it never did. I was so happy and it made me dislike Harold for getting people upset and his prediction was wrong. I would never ever forget this day. That’s why I believe that this was one of the biggest days in 2011.