For those of you who haven’t read the article “Scenes from the MySpace Backlash.”
What we don’t understand we fear. That’s the only way that I can comprehend that clamp down on this service. It’s easier to eliminate something that you don’t get rather than to learn about it and deal with it. Kids are going to do dumb things sometimes and we need to educate kids on how NOT to do dumb things. I did dumb things when I was a kid and I learned from those mistakes and luckily I had people that were able to help me grow and move past those things. It seems to me that the actions that the school took against the student were more detrimental to the student than anything that the student posted on myspace. I wonder if there was something else going on there that the article didn’t mention, because the school’s reaction seemed much too extreme.
Ultimately I think the real problem is related to human nature. Human beings want to control things and in this instance the situation was uncontrollable. Our natural instinct is to try to control everything around us and it can’t be done. What we must try to do instead is to ADAPT.
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I’m not sure if it was in this article or a different one, but it discussed that “banning” kids from MySpace will only fuel them to do it more.
This is the nature of kids. As you said, they can’t control this. So the best strategy is for adults to educate themselves and then their children.
I find new, strange things exhilerating. I hope to remain that way and implement that into my profession as a librarian (and a “one day” parent).
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