Some youth rethink online communications
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For some, it would be unthinkable &#151; certain social suicide. But Gabe Henderson is finding freedom in a recent decision: He canceled his MySpace account.
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The social networking site -- once the exclusive domain of students and
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A trend among young people leans toward offline relationships. The young people say old-fashioned face to face is the way to build real friendships, and cancelling profiles on social networking sites is not social suicide.
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By Will Lester  Teenager Michelle Rome can't imagine life without instant messaging. Baby boomer Steve Wilson doesn't care that it even exists.  They're part of an "instant messaging gap" between teens and adults.
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Blog: A recent study from Harvard University showed that the majority of teens and young adults on the Internet aren't reading the news, and many of them aren't going to find it on social networks.
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College students now are wired, wireless, Sidekicked, Facebooked, YouTubed and bleeping with instant messages and text messages. But try getting an important announcement out to everyone on campus.
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By Maria Puente  Think teens and twentysomethings hog all the online attention? Time to shove the teenyboppers aside: It's Grandma and grandkids -- some too young to read -- who are forging the newest interactive social networks in cyberspace.
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By Melissa McGrath, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Sep. 12--It seems like an average school setting: teenagers wearing jeans and T-shirts, sitting at tables, writing vigorously on college-ruled paper and looking up every now and then to chat with each other.
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Is this just a case of a stodgy old-media company trying to hang out online with the cool kids?
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âGrowing Up Onlineâ asks an increasingly important question: What does it mean to be part of the first generation coming of age steeped in a virtual world seemingly outside parental control?
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The Internet has opened the floodgates of self-expression. What happens next?
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By Randy Myers, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  May 29--In hopes of making the Internet a safer place for children, concerned parents tap into a multitude of resources.
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While young people embrace the Web with real or virtual friends and their cell phone is never far away, relatively few like technology and those that do tend to be in Brazil, India and China, according to a survey.
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Teenager Michelle Rome can't imagine life without instant messaging. Baby boomer Steve Wilson doesn't care that it even exists. They're part of an "instant messaging gap" between teens and adults. And the division is wide, says an AP-AOL survey on how Americans use or snub those Internet bursts of gossip, happy date-making and teen tragedies that young people exchange by the hour while supposedly doing homework.
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By Julia Stuart  They come home from school, ignore their toyboxes and log on. Mouses in hand, they enter a virtual world and play with their dolls online. The real thing, it appears, is no longer cool.   There is a plethora of internet sites now catering for young girls.
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Youngsters are capable of expressing their angst in a 160-character SMS message.
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Young people -- easily mobilized  through the Internet and mobile phone -- are a vocal and  radical force in Hungary&#39;s near-tribal political conflict, now  increasingly being fought out on the streets.