HW#7
Do I think that parents should monitor their middle-school child's writing online???
That is a good question... I do not believe that parents should monitor their child's online writing but that they should be apart of it. They should not read their child's writing or even look at it unless the child is okay with it. But I do believe that ever parent should know to talk to their child about the dangers of posting personal information online, and how dangerous it can be to talk to people you don't know, even online. I think that parents should advise their children to post their blogs as private if they are going to post, I think it is really creepy that people you don't know can read your "online Diary," and the fact that this kid J. allowed Emily to come see him at school and talk to him, he doesn't know this person. I think that online writing is a good way for teenagers to express themselves to their friends and class mates. Emily Nussbaum and the person she interviews in Blog! how the newest media revolution is changing politics, business, and culture, puts the way I feel about blogging into really good words J. "called it 'better than therapy,' a way to get out his true feelings- all the emotions he thought might get him in trouble if he expressed them in school or at home." ( Kline and Burnstein 352)
I think that this quote explains why people blog, they can express how they feel and not know that people are judging them unless they post a comment, and if its a bad comment they don't have to read it. So it really is like "group therapy" only better.
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I agree with your idea of parent's more of "keeping an eye on their child's blog." I think a parent has the right to know what their child is doing online, especially when their only in middle school. They don't necessarily need to read their blog. But discussing with their child the dangers of giving personal information online is definitely a good thing.
Good, leads with your own idea.
Do we know that J. didn't know who Emily Nussbaum was? She's a journalist.
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