This short article is probably more suited for parents of young children: Microsoft researcher Dana Boyd has some advice for parents who are struggling with their children's use of social media: she reminds us that the advice that children need to negotiate networked publics parallels
advice that parents have always given when their children encounter
public spaces. The networked society that we live in today may feel radically
different, but many youth are struggling with the things they’ve always
struggled with.They’re trying to figure out who they are and how they
fit into the bigger world. They want to hang out with friends, but
they’re also trying to figure out the status games of their peers.
