Topic: Social Software and Tagging
U.S. teens lose interest in blogging: study
Reuters US Online Report Technology News
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Blogging by teenagers and young adults has dropped by half over the past three years as they turn instead to texting and social networking sites such as Facebook, a new study shows. The study released this week by the Pew Internet and American Life project also found ...
Is blogging a slog? Some young people think so
AP News
The need for speed and brevity turns once-trendy blogging into just another way to communicateCould it be that blogs have become online fodder for the — gasp! — more mature reader? A new study has found that young people are losing interest in long-form blogging, as their communication habits have become increasingly ...
New York Pressures Social Networking Sites For More Screening
consumeraffairs.com
Sex offender database matching yields results, officials say New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo says he is sending letters to 14 Web sites that primarily cater to children, urging them to provide further protections against the threat of sexual predators online. Cuomo says the sites should screen their member lists ...
Use of Twitter, Facebook rising among gang members
AP News
Gang members increasingly use Twitter, Facebook to boast about crime, threaten rivals and moreWhen a gang member was released from jail soon after his arrest for selling methamphetamine, friends and associates assumed he had cut a deal with authorities and become a police informant. They sent a warning on Twitter ...
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