Health Buzz: Teens Using MySpace and Other Health News
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One Of The Health Problems In This World
Everyone has two vocal cords. Anyone at any age can get a paralyzed vocal cord if the nerve to the vocal cord get injured or damaged. A paralyzed vocal cord is one of the problems in this world that can cause slower speech. It takes two paralyzed vocal cords for a person to not be able to talk.
Myspace Is Good Guy;; Not A Bad Guy<3
Myspace is not a bad thing!
As long as the person using the myspace is responsible when using it then i dont see a problem.
Parents always say that myspace is bad, but its not it just depends on who the person is thats using it.
Most people use myspace to talk to there friends and family, which they should be doing but others use it to do things such as talk about sex and drugs or violence and those are the people that shouldnt be using myspace:))<3
NO we have not missed the point
To 2 previous posters:
NO, we have not missed the point of the article or of the research study or have low reading comprehension. I for one, have always scored in the top tenth of one percent in reading comprehension -- genius level.
You say kids should not discuss "bad" behavior on myspace because it can be checked when they apply to colleges or jobs. Factually, this is not even really correct and shows you do not know how myspace works. I will first address this topic and then address the ethics and morality of respecting peoples' privacy even in a public venue.
First, on myspace, the user controls the content, access to the content, and longevity of the content. Unlike news or other articles, which often remain on the internet forever, myspace page content is instantly gone once deleted or changed by the user. If a kid wants a clean myspace when applying for college, that user can log on and remove or change any wording or photos. Any comments posted by the user can also be deleted.
Second, the user controls access. The myspace can be set to private, so no one but "friends" has access to it.
Even on a public myspace, various features are only available to "friends," and each friend request is approved or denied by the user. ONLY a friend can see the Comments posted on the bulletin board, receive and send messages, post a Comment onto the user's site, or see the photos set for friend-only viewing.
Any "friend" can be deleted by the user at any time if the user does not like the postings of the friend.
What's more, a user can delete the whole page at any given time.
THIS RESEARCHER IS NOT TELLING THE TRUTH OR THE ARTICLE IS INCORRECT-- There is no way to send an email to a person on myspace, unless the user posted an email address on the site. A message can be sent on the myspace system, but only by a "Friend." The researcher must have been posed herself untruthfully to gain admittance as a friend. Using myspace for such a purpose most likely goes against the Terms of Service and is thus a crime, as we all recently learned.
The results of the study are warped. If I got a message on myspace from some nosy busybody warning me about sex, I would assume I was being stalked by a nutcase. So would any kid. The results are therefore flawed -- the behavior is not changed due to fear of the behavior or induced common sense, but for fear of the "friend" sending weird messages.
How could these myspace users have given KNOWING CONSENT to participate as HUMAN SUBJECTS in this study? How could any university or institution approve a study where subjects were studied without their consent?
RESPECTING THE PRIVACY OF OTHERS (especially of kids) IN A PUBLIC SPACE is common courtesy and decency. We ignore overheard conversations, let people be, and go about our business. DO the same with myspaces and other public places. Do not be a voyeur, pervert, busybody, or nosy nanny. RESPECT OTHERS, especially KIDS.
Wow,
Quite honestly, this article is sort of rediculous. What people say online and what they say to eachother in person might be the same thing, but who cares? Of course the things said on a Myspace page are viewable to some others or to anybody, but that shouldn't give us a reason to label that person or for this matter, an entire generation. We are at liberty to talk about the things we want, that's why we live in a free country. I don't see the big deal here, because discussing substance abuse and sexual things doesn't mean we're out there doing it. People blow everything out of proportion and I think this was honestly a wasted "study". And to a certain extent, in my opinion, the people who e-mailed the people telling them to change their profiles, have no right to do that. If MySpace themselves wants to tell them that they should change their page and remove all the inappropriate things off of it, that's their job.
The point
The point is: "Parents, be scared--be very scared!"
Also, apparently the threshold for "shame" has gotten even lower!
The point is?
What is the point of this article? It is in the "Health" section. It points out the subject matter than some teenagers post on social networking sites. It then states that most of these MySpace users didn't change their profiles after getting some junk/spam email. Then it closes talking about online bullying and diets... huh?
This is a mess of an article.
wait a minutes...
... you mean to tell me that teenagers actually talk about the same stuff on MySpace and Facebook as they do at school and when they are hanging out with their friends? Amazing!
Soooo many of you MISSED THE POINT!!!
Just because you can read, apparently doesn't mean you can extrapolate meaning...
The point isn't that they talk about the issues (which, as we know, teens always have), it's that they DO IT ON A PUBLIC FORUM!!! This would have been the equivalent of getting wasted, using drugs and having sex, in the early '90s, and then going on the local news to talk about it.
What the moronic younger generation doesn't understand is that everyone now checks social networks and internet profiles to get an idea of the personality they are dealing with - whether it be college acceptance or employers - EVERYONE checks. So if you blab about your stupid teenage behavior (not saying that it isn't normal btw), you're going to look like an a-hole... it could lead to denials from school admission, rejections from jobs, and countless other things.
The point is not "don't do these things, they are bad" and not even "don't talk about these things"... it's DON'T DO IT ON THE WEB BECAUSE EVERYONE IS READING IT!!
Seriously folks... take a lesson in reading comprehension. Please.
stupid
you used to be kids... stop making your kids out to be the beast. time has changed... change with it or go to bed.
A ridiculous study
This is a ridiculous study.
This nosy busybody contacted the myspace users -- HOW?
Probably by pretending to be a teen and sending a Friend request.
I have a myspace account and I am an adult and I put nothing on there that I do not think is suitable to share. But just having it means I am agreeing to share myself with the world, to some extent. AND you know what? I am willing. I am very cautious not to contact any of my "friends"" that look really young.
My nieces and nephews have all been on myspace for years. They all were lying about their ages, their activities, etc. They have all gone on to college or whatever they wanted, they are all decent human beings, and none of them has any big problem.
Adults snooping around on teens' myspaces is snooping, period. Leave the kids alone. Go get bossy and puritanical somewhere else. Everything in life does not need to be reduced to being an introduction to a college admissions officer or a potential employer.
Let teens be crazy. Let them play and make up identities. Let them pretend to relish dangerous activity -- for heaven's sake, this is the first generation that was raised having to sit in a baby car seat from birth. They were the first generation forced to wear helmets while riding tiny training wheel bikes. They were the first generation loaded down with padding when they skated.
And where did all this protective behavior bring us? To Kids gone K-K-KrazY!!!
