Poverty DIscourse

Response to Heart MySpace Reading

This article focused on teenagers, their social practices/tendencies, and MySpace's role in this. Having a 15 year old sister (Angie), I have asked myself similar questions to the ones he tried to give answers for in this article. Should I discourage Angie from going on MySpace all the time and encourage her to do more "productive" things with her time? or should I "reward" her behavior by standing up for her when my other sister's pick on her or when my mom tells her to get off the computer?....This article unfortunately didn't shed any new light on my own reflections probably because it didn't really give much data to go by except that there are a lot less predators on MySpace then one would think...whatever that happens to be...

Boyd did give us a personal perspective on why teenagers do what they do and why parents should chill out a little more when they react to it. I do find MySpace interesting...I have one myself though I only get on about once a month for 2 seconds. I always find myself going to my friend's pages that actually use it regularly and to Angie's page to listen to what new song they put up since I never actually take the time to discover music that I like on my own. But yeah...I could definitely see it as a place to hang out that is inferior to actual physical hanging out. And Boyd's ideas about it being a private space for teenagers I certainly would agree with. As long as the kids go out to play as well and parents talk to them and make sure they know they can tell them anything if they need them....haha this article just makes me think about parenting skills...

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