Here, using a small set of these interviews, which were made with students in a tutorial centre in Athens [2], we will describe how some young people use the Internet to make relationships with others, and particularly how young women and men use the net to meet and talk to one another.
As a place to meet and talk with strangers, one of the appeals of cyberspace lies in its visual silence.
It is not unknown for girls and boys, and even researchers to take on new selves.
Sherry Turkle tells of her shock and surprise at entering a chatroom anonymously and encountering another Professor Turkle who was there doing research.
What is an Acronym An Acronym is a word formed from the initial letters of a name much like an abbreviation or text shortcut, such as LOL, which means Laughing out loud, and can also mean Lots of Luck.
Another example many teens often use is the abbreviations "POS " - parent(s) over shoulder, or "PAL" - Parents Are Listening, to indicate to the chat recipient that they are unable to talk because a parent is present.
In this paper we describe a particular set of Internetbased interactions that have great appeal to young people but create most anxiety among parents and other adults. In the main they were concerned about security rather than pornography, which they saw as amusing rather than harmful.
During the period 20002002 we conducted more than 200 interviews with children and young people and conducted case studies in homes, schools, libraries, cybercafes and other places where the Internet is accessed. But it was also clear from our interviews that many were more active in chatrooms than their parents and other adults realised.
Ricki Goldman Segall (1998) has shown how this use of computers appeals particularly to teenage girls, who can use the computer to explore and extend their interests in fashion and appearance in intimate and novel ways.
And there is dark side of illicit information, criminal activity, dangerous knowledge and harmful content.
Teachers, parents, librarians and other adults want to encourage children and young people to make maximum use of the positive and creative possibilities of the internet, but they also feel, to varying degrees, responsible for steering them away from the dark side.
This paper reports a small number of interviews with young people in Athens about their use of Internet chatrooms as a means of meeting people.
In the last few years there has been a growing public concern about the dangers of socialising with strangers in chatrooms, but what do the users themselves think about the risks involved, and what strategies have they adopted to manage these risks?
I've got nice big breasts - 36D, with big nipples that are round and firm. I'm a good girl in the day and a hot devil at night Hi, I'm Katy, a 22 year old blue eyed blonde with 34DD boobs and a peachy bottom ripe for spanking.
It may sound like an unpleasant niche website for a handful of amoral people to whom wedding vows never meant very much.
All you have to do is answer a couple of simple questions and you’re ready to go.
But when it comes to the visual side of things, which I’m dipping my toe in, I’m definitely appreciative for any fucking glimmer of validation that I’m actually doing it and that I’m doing it right. I wasn’t saturating the market; I was an indie-pop singer. I thought, “Well, I have one thing—I used to have a blond bob, and maybe I’ll make myself just a blond bob.”WIIG: What did the record label think of that? It’s a testament to my management that they took the idea to them and said, “You’ve got to trust her.” A lot of people wanted to do record deals with me. I could have dinner with these people at their houses, but anywhere you go now where there’s a camera, it’s actually work. I’m going to have to work out five times that week with Jennifer Aniston’s trainer.” This is commerce and I’m ,000 in the hole just to go to a party. That is not what I’m going to be doing in the future.