teen danger
it looks like this might affect many, many people. i had a look and it's almost global! this is not a healthy thing for our kids to be doing. look at this and decide for yourself.i am off this morning to see the case worker. i reckon i will be off the sickness benefit soon [going by the last conversation with the doc]. it will be interesting to see what is said. especially when i mention the publishing contract. should be interesting.
i see the severed foot washed up on himatangi beach on sunday is not suspicious. i wonder what suspicious is then???
for those of us who are nutritionally challenged [over weight, heart problems, diabetes etc] this might be of interest.
posted by mystified @ 9:07 am
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oddly enough, the online social spaces would appear to be a lot safer places to 'hang out' than other (physical) public spaces.
when danah boyd was over here talking about the myspace phenomena (myspace being the largest online social networking site at the moment), she was of the opinion that most kids (american kids, at any rate) are pretty au fait with the threats of stranger danger online, and have the mechanisms to be able to deal with them (blocking, reporting). There has never been an instance of a sexual assault or abduction attributed to myspace, for example.
Misbehaving kids though, that's a different story...
well, you could indeed be right. nz kids don't seem to be quite so sophisticated. the danger seems to be very real here at the moment.
"the danger seems to be very real here at the moment."
seems, but probably isn't.
It wasn't after all, a guy stalking a girl. I can't recall one instance of a nz kid getting into trouble because of someone stalking them via an online community site.
"nz kids don't seem to be quite so sophisticated."
well, they're all using bebo and myspace as well. You'd hope they'd be sophisticated enought to figure out how to click the 'block' and 'report abuse' buttons as quickly as the american kids.
i hope you are right. maybe it's just bad girls playing up like in chch. i do have a feeling it won't be that long before something more predatorial happens. be good if i'm wrong.
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