Also, somebody else has paid for another two months of DW time.

[conuly]

Which is so sweet and unexpected :)

Thank you so much!

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Comments

[author_by_night]

What I'd be interested in further exploring is teen internet use in my generation versus the younger generation. Since my generation was technically the first to really do it, but I also think it was much different?

Then again, it's probably that even back then, my internet stuff was doctored through fandom things, whereas my friends were going into chatrooms and talking to boys from school. I had online friendships, but they were with complete strangers, yet in a safer way than many of my peers. It was like now, I didn't really give a lot of personal information, and I mostly talked about things that had nothing to do with my personal life. If the survey is anything to go by, those teens ARE talking about their personal lives. Yet not necessarily sharing selfies.

Roughly two-thirds of teens say social networking sites helps teens at least some to interact with people from different backgrounds (69%<)

Yeah, this was my experience as well, now of course too but also as a teen. I think that's actually very healthy, especially for teens who weren't necessarily otherwise exposed to people from different groups.

[ioplokon]

I think it's much easier now to give personally identifying (or at least geolocatable) information than back in the early internet. IP address, metadata, things you can reverse locate via google, bots that can aggregate and analyze your posts to figure out personal data. It's not that all that wasn't, I guess, around when we were teens online but the barrier to entry for finding someone based on their online data is much lower now & doxxing is fairly common. So I wonder how much of the change in behavior/use is teens today being smart enough to recognize how hard it is to be genuinely anonymous online.

& re your second point: yeah. I'm gay and my family was definitely not understanding or accepting at the time. I wasn't out and the first places I met other gay people were in online message boards. Having the ability to use the internet unsupervised probably saved my life.

[conuly]

But the advice we were given as kids was so... backwards. Never tell anybody your city or name. Is anybody really going to hunt us down based upon that!? And if they are, they might well have picked any random name out of the phone book, so.

[greghousesgf]

Patrick Stewart is awesome! I'm so glad he's stepping forward to get involved with this.
Another fuck up thing Bush did that no one seems to talk about: he said atheists weren't real Americans. he was all in favor of deporting us. (to where? Atheististan??) if he had said that about any other minority he would have gotten in lots of trouble.

[conuly]

Yes, it's only unfortunate that Patrick Stewart had to grow up in an abusive household :(

George Bush can just... ugh.

[brokenallbroken]

Aw, Mathnet was my favorite segment too. And I may have forgotten the words to the tessellation song, but I remember the graphics like whoa.

[conuly]

I never saw it at all!

[jesse_the_k]

That Psychiatric Advanced Directive article was enlightening. I'm going to investigate that more.

Two things struck me about the article:
1. All involved used their full names -- I'm glad they're willing to help destigmatize
2. Dogs' ubiquity -- which this household fully approves.

[conuly]

Dogs are great. So are cats. Also rabbits, ferrets, ratties, snakes... any pet, really, so long as you love it and can care for it.

[kengr]

Faster than light travel is not scientific. Fight me.

What I've often told budding writers is that you only need to know enough science (or have folks to ask) so that you *know* when you are breaking the laws of physics (or whatever).

It's when you break them inadvertently that you are going to get some nerd ranting at you.

[conuly]

Though you can often handwave rule breaking with vague "We were wrong, we found out that you can blah blah blah after all" or whatever.