Digizen Report: Young People and Social Networking
Posted
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 4:21 PM
by
kent-teachers
For those with an interest in social networking the benefits and opportunities section is worth a read. This extract made me think:
"it may not occur to young people that their public arguments or “flame wars”, their overly enthusiastic critiques of their teachers, or the risqué pictures of themselves that seemed quite funny at the time may still be around in a few years when they are applying for a job or trying to get into university, for example.
We don’t yet know the full consequences for a generation that has grown up online, or the future implications of new types of search, for example social searches, which aggregate information from across a range of social networking sites by your name or email address, or of the development of facial-recognition search software."