That’s the title of a full page feature that ran in my school’s paper last week, a story that for some reason I didn’t even see until today. Yikes.
Myspace.com and its ilk are described as “a new revolution taking over, like Intstant Messenger.” One student reports:
By posting blogs and journals entries, it is a way for his friends to read and keep informed with what is going on in his daily life.
The word choice strikes me as odd. How do you post a blog, I wonder, unless, of course, the blog is the post? Hmmm.
“It’s just a craze,” [one student says]. “People are looking for a way to get themselves out there. All these sites are just to get attention.”
She goes on to say that these community websites are used to get sympathy and false interest.
There is some more about whether or not blogging is safe, about how these communities are used to date new people (not safe, I would say), and about becoming online journal junkies.
Sigh.
Nary a mention of the nearly 1,000 student Weblogs we’ve created here over the last three years, or the work that’s been done in them. Bummer.
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