Schools and Libraries to Ban Facebook/MySpace?


	Schools and Libraries to Ban Facebook/MySpace?

handleriii

10-24-2008 2:04 PM

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government, social networking, seo, smo

handleriii says:

I think there is a huge difference between "social networking" and using social sites to show how "cool" you are and troll for dates & relationships.

Teenagers who are not "networking" for a business related reason have no business NOT having their online activities supervised...because teens have poor impulse control, poor self esteem issues, and can be easily swayed to do ridiculous things just because some stranger thinks they are "hot".

Should Facebook & MySpace be banned at libraries for teens? Perhaps yes...for everyone, perhaps not.

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8-22-2009 1:53 PM

xpersianx

oh no !

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