Cracking Teenagers

This article is about teenagers today and the internet. In the article researcher Danah Boyd, who believes that the internet is a safe haven for teens these days, she states in the article that as a kid at times she felt very lonely and the internet was an escape for her. She meant so many people and it made her realize that there are so many people out there who are smart just like her. Boyd says often on the internet children can get mentors and friends. Boyd believes that parents are worried about the wrong things these days she says that now the internet is more safe than ever, because children are now "reacting online largely to social changes that take place off line".

"We need to give our kids freedom to explore and experience things online that might happen". In the article Boyd argues that times are now better than they were when she was a kid, she thought she would be dead before the age of 21 because of how much classmates she lost to drug overdoses, suicide, accidents, and a murder". Boyd grew up in a divorced home so for that she felt that the internet was her saving grace , because it helped her realize that there were so many other smart kids out there, and helped her not feel alone.

Boyd thinks that the internet can be a safe place for kids like it was for her, but me not so much, even though studies and statistics, and test say that the violence level before was way worse, I don't think so; even though I'm only 14  to me it doesn't feel that way. I believe that if parents today let their teens "Experience" the internet they risk getting harassed, stalked, or injured. I just don't think its a good idea, I understand that maybe times have gotten better over the years but I just don't think were there yet.