TAPPING INTO SOCIAL MEDIA TO IMPROVE TEEN HEALTH

TAPPING INTOSOCIAL MEDIA TO IMPROVE TEEN HEALTH. (2010, Feb 10). Business WireRetrieved fromhttp://search.proquest.com.proxy.consortiumlibrary.org/docview/443579949?accountid=14473

Over 90% of teens use any kind of social media, not just to interact with their friends but also to learn or to gain information that they think is important. And with these teens, there are over 88% have health insurances. But they know so little about their health care, health benefit and how it works. A two-year project, funded by a $1.1 million grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development of the National Institutes of Health want to help teens to understand how health care works and help them to gain knowledge about it. They believe a web-based social media platform can help teens to understand how health care works and encourage them to use it.

(Classmate's Blog) Bullying and Youth Leaders

My classmate Magdeline, posted a article about bullying and youth leaders. Bullying is one of the major problem for teens. Especially with all these social media platform cyberbullying is getting worst each year. In her article, she interview a youth leader about his bullying experiences and how he overcome. There's also a video of him (that he filmed by himself) talking about how he deal with bullying.

(Free Post) Six Tips from USA.gov for Keeping Teens Safe on Social Media

Six tips from USA.gov for keeping teens safe on social media. (2014, Sep 17). PR Newswire Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.proxy.consortiumlibrary.org/docview/1562462687?accountid=14473

Now, more and more teens have smart phones which means more teens are using Facebook, Twitter, Instagram..etc social media platform. But do these teens really know how to protect themselves and privacy? Here are some easy tips to protect yourself and your teens while using social media.

Is Google Making Us Stupid? by Nicholas Carr

In this article he started off with this famous line from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?" which it's an interesting opening. He talked about how technology makes our life easier to do research, information, knowledge, and essay access...etc. all these good stuff. But at the same time it makes us become lazy and not as erudite. He also talked about he used to read word to word when he was reading. Now he tend to skim through it and find the answers instead of reading it. 

I admit that lots of time I like to skim through articles just to find my answers. Is google making us stupid? In some ways, yes. Because we abuse the easy access and not actually learning things. But I’m there are some people that use google as a tool to learn more knowledge. It’s just most of us chose not to because we can always google the answers instead of leaning it.