My first thoughts from Don Tapscott's book concern the Shared Spaces, especially MySpace. He talks about the reason teens use myspace is a means to reclaim their private space. The book mentions that teen-agers have lost their place to hang out with their peers and this is their way of communicating and spending time with their friends.
I never thought about this is the way kids are communicating with their friends. I took it for granted that they communicate with their friends the same way we did growing up talking and hanging out at the mall etc.
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Lots and lots of kids hang out at the mall even now. They all have mySpace and Facebook but these web 2.0 social sites haven't replaced hanging out in the mall. Yeah, there are some kids that don't hang out in the mall and cling to MySpace for their share of the social pie, but a lot of these kids are the kind that wouldn't have got any pie anyway in the pre-MySpace era.
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