youth culture vs. rss-feeds and new LJ/Xangy-insta nt-messaging.

add-on:
"danah boyd: Starts off saying that as a young person she doesn't care who built the internet, it's just there and that is that. Finding IM as a way to talk to her friends without her mother listening into half the conversation was a major moment. She's now studying how the youth are using the internet is less interested in what adults can teach kids but what kids can teach adults. They use the internet for information and communication. She says as far as kids are concerned Google is the internet. It all comes from there. She's also talking about the e-mail/IM thing. She says kids think of e-mail as a way to talk to companies and adults, but IM is the way they talk with their peers. Also that they are blogging, but using LiveJournal and Xanga because those are more about communities and way to hang out online with their friends. Which all comes down to ways to find people like yourself. Now she's talking about Fan Fiction, where people take characters that exist in popular culture, Harry Potter for example, and putting them into their own situations and own stories. How this is a great creative outlet and those people are now being sued for violating copyrights. Now she's talking about finding communities online that are like yourself and how when she found some queer groups online it helped her come to terms with herself even if it's something that some other people think is wrong, but she thinks that some communities that are there that are in support of anorexia, bulimia, and self cutting are very scary."

from conference 35th anniversary of internet