{"id":32923,"date":"2014-03-18T00:38:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mitchwagner-what-kids-are-really-up-to-online\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T12:57:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:57:44","slug":"mitchwagner-what-kids-are-really-up-to-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mitchwagner-what-kids-are-really-up-to-online\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-32923 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/mitchwagner-what-kids-are-really-up-to-online\/attachment\/32924\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_n2llimc6WB1qzqyc6o1_1280-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mitchwagner.tumblr.com\/post\/79898389337\/what-kids-are-really-up-to-online-microsoft\">mitchwagner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/3\/13\/5488558\/danah-boyd-interview-the-era-of-facebook-is-an-anomaly\">What kids are really up to online<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Microsoft researcher and author danah boyd discusses why Facebook is an anomaly, the myth of using real names online, and why kids fragment their lives online and use pseudonyms. She also talks about why panics over kids on social media are dangerous.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I think about this woman whose case I got involved with. Her name was Tess, and she lived in Colorado. She and her boyfriend at the time killed her mother. The media coverage of this was at the height of MySpace, so the media coverage was \u201cGirl With MySpace Kills Mother\u201d which is always really like, \u201cWhat the hell? What does this have to do with MySpace?\u201d So I went and looked at it. People said she was a troubled kid, and that\u2019s why she was on MySpace, and that\u2019s why she killed her mother, blah blah blah. So I found her MySpace. For a year and a half she had documented abuse she faced at home, her attempts to run away, her attempts to get help, her confusion and frustration, her own mental health issues. She was a mess, and she was putting it all out there._<\/p>\n<p>I was talking to a bunch of her friends and I said, \u201cYou guys saw this, why didn\u2019t you say something?\u201d One of her best friends said, \u201cWe did, regularly. The school told us it wasn\u2019t their problem. They told us that they blocked MySpace, and they couldn\u2019t look at it. They didn\u2019t know what we were talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, as the case unfolded, what we learned was that the school had seen her come to school with black-and-blue marks, which they reported to Social Services, but by the time Social Services would investigate they\u2019d say there wasn\u2019t enough evidence to proceed. All this evidence was clearly documented on social media, which is really frustrating to me, because here\u2019s this young woman who\u2019s crying out for help all over social media, using this new tool, really trying to find somebody to pay attention. And nobody\u2019s around.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mitchwagner: What kids are really up to online Microsoft researcher and author danah boyd discusses why Facebook is an anomaly, the myth of using real names online, and why kids fragment their lives online and use pseudonyms. She also talks about why panics over kids on social media are dangerous. 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