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?