I found this story to be very interesting but not at all shocking. Being a member of facebook myself, I have seen many profiles that are similar to the ones that are talked about in the video. Being a mother, when I connect with my friends on facebook I would expect to see their picture albums to be full of family pictures from different vacations and family evens like mine is, but it seems like so many of them are becoming more and more self involved and are just becoming websites full of pictures promoting themselves and not at all the way that I know them offline. This doesn't just happen to the teenagers that are talked about in the video, and I think that a lot of adults are setting bad examples for the children.
I also was not shocked what-so-ever about teenagers spending so much time on facebook and myspace. Many times I have been in class and will be next to a student on their laptop pretending to be typing notes but is actually on facebook. I personally can't fathom why this would be more important to them at this moment than learning what we are in class to learn and what we have paid good money to be their to learn.
I think that a great way to help monitor our children online is to have the household computer in a common area and not allow them to have computers in their bedrooms. This way they are less likely to look at risky selections and or post risky things about themselves online as they may be caught easier. This is in no way fool proof of course, but it is a strategy to help detour some of the behaviour. I do think that the one mother of Cam is somewhat overboard at times, such as the concert story. Of course some things that happened at the concert happen, and just because their is documentation of it doesn't mean that everyone there was involved. I don't know exactly how I would have handled it but I do feel that she was out of line to contact all of the parents.
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