This article appeared in the New York Times and it basically is talking about how teens should have more private time on the internet. Dr.Boyd is a senior researcher at Microsoft and she works a lot of media and she has said that the internet has helped as a child. Her parents had divorced when she was 5 and her father wasn't there a lot and school wasn't the same so she went to the internet. She found out that there are other smart kids out there and this became her counseling. Personally I think there is an upside and a down side to this idea that she is presenting. I think that parents shouldn’t be so over protecting to their kids from seeing things. I think that they should give us certain amount of privacy on the internet because sometimes that can lead to a kid acting out. We want a little privacy and we were born in the technology age so of course most of these things we do would involve the internet. So Facebook keeps us in contact with people and sometimes we might find a boyfriend/girlfriend and express our feelings but that’s how we communicate. But also we kids do need to be considerate of what we go on and gain the respect from the parents do they won’t have to be so over protective. But other than that I think that is a good for kids to do and I’m glad and adult can see that.
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