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Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Look out, TV: Here comes MySpace and Facebook.
For teachers and parents who still don’t get that online social networking is a big deal, the National School Boards Association has this tidbit: online teens spend about 9 hours a week chatting, blogging and using sites such as Facebook and MySpace. In comparison, they spend about 10 hours a week watching TV.
This comes from an online survey released Tuesday that the association says was sponsored by - but does not necessarily represent the views of - Mircrosoft, Verizon and News Corp., owner of MySpace.
Other factoids include: 96 percent of students with online access use social networking tech, whether applications or sites; more than 1 in 5 post message board comments daily; and almost 60 percent said they discuss education topics online such as college planning and careers while about half say they discuss schoolwork.
That last may not win over some parents who have asked “What are you doing with that computer?” and were not reassured by the response: “Homework.”
But mom and dad do get benefits, sort of, from having tech-savvy kids. The study says:
“Nonconformists - students who step outside of online safety and behavior rules - are on the cutting edge of social networking … Ironically, nonconformists also are more in touch with their parents as well, communicating significantly more frequently with their parents in every way except in person.”
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