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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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Any serious adult user of Twitter, Facebook, or MySpace knows these sites are both social and anti-social. They need to be taught the importance of privacy and personal space, the value of real relationships, and to be aware of their own self worth. The idea is not to teach them to use social networks. That will come in time.

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

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Publication is a self-invasion of privacy.” Whenever we publish details about our selves, we have affirmatively decided to invade our own privacy. Must we give up our privacy? It also limits the degree to which we can protest about invasions of privacy. And all but one of them are dead. Marshall McLuhan. Marshall McLuhan.