Teen Social Networking Links

Social Networking and Teen Drug Use: Tremendous Potential to Help -- and Harm

Preliminary research indicates that use of online social networking sites, such as Facebook, by adolescents who are receiving treatment for substance use disorders can negatively affect their care.

Teen mum in abuse video in jail

PETALING JAYA: A video clip of a teen mother abusing a 10-month-old baby girl has gone viral over social networking sites, infuriating scores of people in Mother's Day mood

Is your TEEN on Facebook, Twitter? Watch out!

With all due respect to its wide range of extraordinary benefits, social media like any new technology or innovation, comes with its own potential problems. More so, if the consumer is a teenager.

U46 parents get a lesson on lingo of the ’Net

ELGIN — I w4n7 2 m337 u @ *$ L8R 2nI6h7. Would you be surprised to learn the above is an actual sentence? It is — and one that teenagers are using every day to communicate with each other. During a forum presented by the Elgin School District U46 Math, Science and Instructional Technology Department on Wednesday night, parents got a crash course in teen social media slang. “Social networking is ...

Facebook shares jump, then fade as trading opens

Facebook jumped 13% to $43 as the stock opened for trading for the first time Friday morning. But almost as quickly, the early gains evaporated and shares in the world's largest social networking company were barely trading above their $38 initial offering price.