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Keeping Generation Z Safe Online

If you were to install a pool in your backyard you would of course install a fence around the pool, especially if you had young children.  While the fence is a necessary safety requirement of owning a pool it is not the best way to protect your child from drowning.  They won’t only encounter swimming [...]

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How Can You Tell If Your Teenager Is Suicidal?

The death of the 16-year-old son of a prominent British baronet has again focused attention on the tragic cost of youth suicides. The international press reported last week that Alexander Codrington, the eldest son of Sir Christopher Codrington, apparently shot himself while on the telephone to police after reportedly being upset about a break-up with [...]

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Are Teenagers Leaving Facebook?

Is this the beginning of the next big switch or just one of many ebbs and flows to come? In the last couple of months the internet has been awash with reports of Facebook fatigue.  Despite reaching more than the 500 million user mark recently there does appear to be growing levels of dissatisfaction with [...]

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Bieber Beats Gaga: Pop Culture & The Rise of Social Media

Stop the presses! Amazing news! Justin Bieber has done it! Done what you may ask? The 16 year old Canadian sensation racked up more than 246 million views of his music video Baby on Friday, eclipsing Lady Gaga‘s Bad Romance which had a mere 245.6 million views. Maybe this doesn’t leave you in a state [...]

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Generation Z & The Shrinking Generation Gap

The science, or is that art, of describing, predicting and tracking generations has been an obsession of many within our youth obsessed, marketing driven, economy for over half a century.  The Baby Boomers, who established and experienced a genuine generation gap between themselves and their parents, have sought to perpetuate and propagate generational difference ever [...]

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Lady Gaga & Madonna: Generational Distinctives

Found this video today about a topic that has been rummaging around in my head for a while – Is Lady Gaga this generation’s Madonna? Does the answer tell us anything about teenagers today? Similarities The above video gives a great example of just how similar Lady Gag is to Madonna. I am sure most [...]

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Teenager Literacy in Digital Era

This is just a brief follow up post from a couple of days ago when I questioned the meaning of surveys that demonstrated kids in England were more likely to own a phone than a book (check out the post here). As I was conducting my daily wander through cyber space today I happened across [...]

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Teenage Computer Game Addicts

I have never been one of those people who have really gotten into computer games.  Partly it is because I think my hand finger co-ordination is probably not that good, and I never had them as a kid so I never developed the habit. However there was a point in life as an adult I [...]

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Why Are More Teenagers Out of Control?

An increasing number of teenagers are beyond the control of their parents and causing all sorts of problems.  Apparently the number of these rampaging teens is growing. Figures from a government helpline in my home state, New South Wales, reported a 38% increase in 2009 from parents seeking help with their out of control teenagers. [...]

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Teenagers & Technology: 4 Myths About Digital Natives

In an earlier post I briefly outlined the term Digital Native and how it has been used to describe the the relationship between today’s teenagers and the technology they have grown up with. For those who can’t be bothered looking up that post the basic thesis is; current day young people, who can’t remember the [...]

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