Growing Up Online

NOT surprise me:
- People use technology while hanging out with friends.
- People use technology to meet other people.
- Adults don't have control on the way teenagers use the internet.
- Teenagers know more about technology than parents
- Parents can use parental control.
- Students don't read because they read summaries online.
- Turn it in is a webpage that looks for plagiarism in papers.
- Every kind of person has a Myspace or Facebook.
- Everyone has access to the internet.
-.Everyone can find out what you post or do.
- Predators on the internet.
- Parents try to be aware of what you are doing online.
- You can find help online.
- People do things online that they would never do in person.
- Cyber bullying

DID surprise me:
- Teenagers use it to express themselves.
- Teenagers use it to make more friends.
- Students know more about technology than teachers.
- Students had to do their papers in class so they don't get extra information from the internet.
- Relationships online but not in person.
- People confront each other through internet and not in the face.
- Internet allows them to express their identity.
- Stalkers are people who get obsessed
- Teenagers made a competition of who had more friends.
- Parents ask their children to give them their passwords.
- 1/7 kids were sexual solicited online.
- Parties used to be with computers (watching videos, playing games, etc.)
- Start thinking about the kids less as victims and more as participants.
- When people are online, they are the real them but in person they are not.
- the internet has created the greatest generation gap.

CHANGED about technology:
- iPod are more advanced now and they are touch.
- Cellphones have changed too. They are more advanced and the are called "smart phones"
- Facebook users has increased.
- Myspace is not popular anymore.
- Social media links increased.
- There are a lot of webpages that can help you with everything.
- First the entertainment was the computer but now you can have it in your phone too.
- People are more aware now of the consequences.
- People are more in danger now than before.
- Schools are adapting more technology now.
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Questions:
1. What topic in the video did you most strongly identify with and why?
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2. What topic in the video was the most UNLIKE your own experiences online and why?
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3. What advice to you have to parents about kids and being online (should they have your password, be your friend on Facebook, monitor your texts... what should and shouldn't they do? why?)