Danah Boyd is a senior researcher at Microsoft and a assistant professor at New York University, she talks about how parents and teachers worry about what we do on the internet, posting information about our-selves, bulling, and stexting. She explains that parents and teachers are worried about the wrong thing and since they worry so much our ability to go out and roam it taken away from us.
In the article Boyd says,"Letting your child out to bike around the neighborhood is seen as terrifying now, even though by all measures, life is safer for kids today." she added, “We need to give kids the freedom to explore and experience things online that might actually help them,” she also added. “What scares me is that we don’t want to look at the things that make us uncomfortable. So rather than see what teenagers are showing us online about bullying and suicide and the problems they’re dealing with and using that information to help them, we’re making ourselves blind to it.”
I highly agree because now if we kids don't get their feedom we might end up seeking around and doing things that were not supose to be doing. For instance some kids get in gangs, drugs, get pregnat, etc., and when the parents or guardian finds out that their kids are in this problem they wonder why they would do something like that.
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