Cracking Teenagers' Online Codes

    My article was about a crazy, outgoing 34-year-old woman named Danah Boyd. She is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge Massachusetts. She has known as a "Respected Figure" in research for socializing over the internet. She researches young teen’s behaviors and benefits from using online websites such a Facebook and Twitter. Danah also is the first person who is an anthropologist, to actually study in that category.
    As we, all know adults worry about safety online towards teens. They believe that children may give out too much personal information, or that it is not good to chat with strangers. However, Danah Boyd disagrees with those thoughts. She believes that this generation of teen’s ability to explore the world has been destroyed. She believes life for a child is safer than it ever was; also, she believes children interact on the internet because there are no adults to control what is going on. Dr.Boyd stated that giving kids freedom online actually helps them with advice and gives voice of experience. Danah gave an example of her story.
    At the age of 16, 13 of Danah's classmates died and she believed she was next. With divorced parents and the unknowing of where her father was, Danah was a problem child in school, hung around the wrong people, and did bad things. But the internet saved her. Danah begun to chat with strangers online, understanding that there were good people out there to help. This positive experience was a big help in her life.
    She believes most people are afraid of the fact that maybe perverts, looking for children online. When the sexually predators end up to be the people that the child knows and trusts.
Dr.Boyd is continuing to get her education, also to keep researching and letting the info she finds be known. She now concluded that the internet is a safe answer to children’s problems.
     Well I think that since I have been taught about internet safety and what not it keeps me from holding my feelings back on the internet. Now since I have read this article it actually gave me some relief that if I do talk to strangers online they are not out to get me, but maybe there to help. I also like the fact that Danah Boyd did the research it can show adults to let us children have some freedom, and privacy in our personal lives. I am going to tell my mom about this to see her opinion because I am all for everything Dr.Boyd has to say about teens it is a wonderful thing.

Teaching Kids How To Break Up Nicely

The article “Teaching Kids How to Break up Nicely” was brought to discussion when 200 teens from different schools in Boston got together and talked about break ups from and on Facebook. That discussion resulted in questions such as “Should you delete pictures of your ex after splitting up?” or “Is it okay to unfriend your last girlfriend to stop you from looking at her profile?” The Boston Public Health commissions were the people that held a conference and actually begun this “Break Up” discussion among teens. The students included in the conference came up with a list. The stated all the healthy and unhealthy things to do after a break up. Students gave opinions and examples of how to there own relationships ended because of incidents on Facebook. The conference gave the teens examples of what healthy break ups were. From pictures and videos of celebrities to telling them the rights and wrongs. The moral lesson was to have teens discuss relationship problems in person rather than Facebook. Many teens realized it and hope it would fix future break ups.

Well my opinion about the article was that I fully understand everything the article was trying to let me know, including its moral lesson.  I’ve had problems on Facebook with my past relationships as well so understood how the teens in the article was feeling. I also believe that since they have facts and info on unhealthy and healthy ways for teens to break up they should inform teens all over the world. This article taught me something and I hope to use it in the future.

Rumor Has it:The New Iphone 5 , New Exciting Features

Rumors say that the 5th version of the I-phone is on it's way to being born. Predicting to be released along the lines of this New Year, this version of the I-phone is to be better, more futuristic, and everything more then the I-phone 4s possibly was. It’s also included to have double the storage, and faster downloads. Fans and supporters of the apple company are eager to find out what the I-phone 5 has in store for them. The I-phone 5 is also expected to have a clear or see threw body. It's also heard to hold an A6 processor, which adds juice to the phones battery, and containing up to almost 20 hours of video calls. The phones new screen is to be bigger a better ranging from 3.8 to 4 inches wide. One cool feature is that it may have possible 3-D images, which may only be see in this phone. Also to be a world phone, which means it will hold 3 antennas letting you able to switch to different carriers wherever and whenever you please. The I-phone 5 is an amazing invention.     

Well I believe that the making of so many versions of the I-phone is unnecessary. People are going to want more and more and it may be hard to come up with new ideas since they used them all up. I also don’t like that apple isn’t paired up with other phone companies. Everyone wants to experience the I-phone 5 and switching to a new phone company is too much. But then I do like the fact that apple is trying to stay up with the new technologies the future brings ahead of us, but still is dealing with the death of Steve Jobs. I’m a fan of apple as well, keep the inventions Apple.

OSAMA BIN LADENS DEAD : BIGGEST STORY OF 2011

The official killing of Osama Bin Laden would be the most talked about story that took place in 2011 forever! Osama Bin Laden was known as the biggest threat of wanting to use terrorism towards the United States of America and take over. He stirred up and let us know he hated the U.S. starting with the 9/11 attacks which brought devastation and thousands of deaths to America. He was the great leader of the group Al Qaeda and has been hiding from us for decades.  Also known as the US most wanted; Osama Bin Laden was founded in a hide out located in Abbotabad, Pakistan 100 yards away from the Pakistani Military Academy. The Bin Laden operation took 40 minutes which ended his death from a shot in his head. No one wanted his remains so his body was buried at sea. Obama was very proud and gave a little speech or announcement as to his victory of finally finding the great Osama Bin Laden. Everyone in America was full of excitement and relief that this horrible person was now dead!

Well I am very proud of Obama to succeed something that our recent President Bush was trying to do for the past decade. So I believe his killing was the biggest story in 2011. I also believe it was the biggest story because this will forever go down in history. Also that it would keep us in peace and out of potential danger of possible attack. The killing of Osama put an official stop towards the biggest terrorist group Al Qaeda, which much hate for America.