{"id":52,"date":"2012-09-30T22:37:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T05:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/webculture\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-09-30T23:08:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T06:08:46","slug":"52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/webculture\/2012\/09\/30\/52\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Youth <3 Social Network Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Danah Boyd’s article Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life<\/a><\/em>, she discusses MySpace and its effects on youth between the \"MYSPACE\"<\/a>ages of fourteen and eighteen years of age. Danah Boyd is an American social media researcher known for her public commentary on the use of social networking sites\u00a0by youth. The article studies American youth engagement in networked publics and considers how properties unique to such mediated settings affect the ways in which youth interact with each other and their identity formation.<\/p>\n

I argue that social network sites are a type of networked persistence, searchability, exact copyability, and invisible audiences. These properties fundamentally alter social dynamics, complicating the ways which people interact.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Boyd explains that in everyday life we use our bodies along with our speech to express information about ourselves. This process is extremely important for being socialized into a society and teenage years are ideal for developing these skills. But in cyber space the physical body does not exist so the impression management skills take on a whole new meaning,<\/p>\n

people must “learn to write themselves into being”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I did find her article to be out-of -date seeing as since most teens are now completely on Facebook. However, I did find her argument, on networking sites as a structured-free environment for teens, to be very interesting. Boyd contends that online access offers a whole new social realm for youth, allowing teenagers to take part in an unregulated space while being in an adult-regulated world. I agree with Boyd in saying this. Social networking sites make it easy for\u00a0the\u00a0younger generation, to quench their boredom and curiosity\u00a0in a society where their lives are highly structured with school and afterschool activities, after which they are expected to either study or spend time with their family. The social networking sites, like myspace and Facebook allow them the freedom that isn’t really offered in their real world. However, how does this affect the core skills (needed to be socialized into a society) that are developed through real experience?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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