{"id":55,"date":"2012-09-30T20:55:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T03:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/?p=55"},"modified":"2012-09-30T20:56:15","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T03:56:15","slug":"teens-3-media-social-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/2012\/09\/30\/teens-3-media-social-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens Luv Social (Media) Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Danah Boyd\u2019s<\/a> \u00a0has done extensive research on youth and their relationship with social media. Boyd, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research<\/a>, wrote the article \u201cWhy Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life\u201d which \u201cexamines how teens are modeling identity through social network profiles so that they can write themselves and their community into being\u201d (2).<\/p>\n

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I found Boyd\u2019s article to be a tad outdated to read now because of the article\u2019s focus on teenagers using MySpace. Although I found the article outdated, I did find some of Boyd\u2019s points interesting and relatable to modern day social media interaction. She points out the differences between adult and teens use of social media, noting how adults use social media to socialize with strangers, while teenagers use it to socialize with those closest to them. I find the bigger issue to be about how teenagers portray themselves online.\u00a0 Both adults and youth are responsible for creating false profiles and maybe at times stretching the truth, but the important question is why<\/em>? Why do people, especially teenagers, feel the need to lie or create a false profile? Boyd notes that we create profiles for the purpose to \u201cproject information about ourselves\u201d, which is a process called \u201cimpression management\u201d (11). While social sites like MySpace and Facebook are convenient ways to communicate, they are also dangerous. The danger, to me, lies within the fact that young boys and girls feel the need to change their image because they\u2019re concerned with how others perceive them. The way we look, where we\u2019re hanging out, who we are with, what we are doing, etc. are constantly being publicized via social media sites. If it\u2019s all about creating an impression, when do we know things are real? How can we tell what is being shown online is the actual truth from what is exaggerated? Quite frankly, I think there is too much pressure.<\/p>\n

These sites are intended as a way to escape, yet there is no possibility for escape. The \u201cold school\u201d ways of escape by writing in a journal have drifted away from us into online databases where we can create new identities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danah Boyd\u2019s \u00a0has done extensive research on youth and their relationship with social media. Boyd, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, wrote the article \u201cWhy Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life\u201d which … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":302,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":3,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"meganknudson","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/author\/meganknudson\/"},"qubely_comment":3,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Danah Boyd\u2019s \u00a0has done extensive research on youth and their relationship with social media. Boyd, a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, wrote the article \u201cWhy Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life\u201d which … Continue reading →","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/302"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/meganknudson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}