On Youth and Teens Today with Vanessa Van Petten

Welcome to a secret view into the world of the net-generation. I love writing to you (maybe a little too much) so enjoy, stick around and be sure to tell me what you think…and, duh, get on my email list quick! (on the right, “subscribe via email”). Or subscribe to my RSS feed. [...]

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woohoo, this is what happens when you have too much to do and don’t want to do any of it = )

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Breaking News reported here at CNN. Orange County, FL teen named Crystal confesses on YouTube she has been taped and needs help because the Orange Country courts have dropped her case.
Crystal is looking for comfort, she is looking for help, but is she divulging too much information?

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I was in Miami this morning on CBS 4 Live morning show and it was great fun!
I talked about how teens are using Facebook and walked the hosts through setting up Privacy settings.  Afterwards both the weather girl and the traffic girl asked me to help them set their privacy settings!
Here is the interview:
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Example of Teen V-log (Video Journaling):
I have been slowly posting articles from my Workshop Presentation that I give to parents and kids about the Internet in really simple basic terms from a younger perspective. One of the major complaints about Frontline’s: Growing Up Online is it only covered the surface of what we, [...]

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