I will admit I have a myspace page, but on that pace I know all my "friends" and I am as real as I can be. I am also eighteen and know how people in this world today are. I was looking at my sisters (who is only sixteen) and it said that she drinks until she pukes and smokes. No she doesn't! What does she want people to think of her. I know what I thought and I am her sister. Then I was looking at my little neigbor's page (just turned fourteen), on her blog she is talking about Boob's and Lap Dances!!! I know this isn't true because I have grown up with ther and she has a future. Why ruin it while in MIDDLE SCHOOL?!? When I was her age even thinking about anyof this stuff would have been an outrage, not only to me but my friends and family too. I think myspace and facebook are great, it's a great way to keep in touch with friends and people, but to make up a fake person is out of the question. While on the Internet it is not a time for you to be whoever you want but to establish yourself as a human being and make your mark on the world!
So anybody who agrees or thinks I am blowing this out of the water let me know. I could be wrong about this whole situation.
Thanks for your time!
I would expect kids and younger teens to experiment with different identities while online. I know I did -- I thought it was really fun to be someone I wasn't. Granted, I never did anything worse than say I was from England or something, or I would change my name. Saying things about drinking and smoking is cause for concern, especially for your sixteen year old sister. I mean, some colleges look at those pages to see who you really are, and that could determine whether she gets in or not.
...but also everywhere else, I am concerned by the way that people choose to present themselves. Do we really live in an age where the way to convince people that you are cool is to convince them that you are sexually active and use drugs, cigarettes and alchohol. I just don't understand why, on website like myspace, where you can be pretty much anyone, people choose that,