Comments on: When Teens Come to Twitter

By: davidcutler

davidcutler — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:31:19 +0000

Most of these kid's parents are not on Twitter. If Mom and Dad where, the kids would gravitate to their own platform. So, Twitter will continue with the “next generation.”

By: How social media will change hiring | Scribnia Blog

How social media will change hiring | Scribnia Blog — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:13:54 +0000

[...] Cornell. A few days before we notified the successful candidate, I happened across an interesting article written by guest blogger David Spinks on TheLostJacket.com, a blog by Stuart Foster. I commented on [...]

By: How I Used Social Media to Get a Job « The Spinks Blog

How I Used Social Media to Get a Job « The Spinks Blog — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:38:19 +0000

[...] Foster, a smart and wittily sarcastic consultant who created The Lost Jacket asked me to write a guest post for his blog. I immediately responded telling him I would. I wrote the post where a pretty [...]

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 09:43:16 +0000

When teens "come" to Twitter? What makes you think they're not already there?!?

Surely, you read our mutual friend Leslie Poston's blog post a while back that highlights some of the Twitter teens and her take on obscene tweets they might read, right? http://uptownuncorked.com/2009/02/21/youth-on-t...

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:43:16 +0000

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:43:16 +0000

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 02:43:16 +0000

By: The dangers of social networking and media sites | Scribnia Blog

The dangers of social networking and media sites | Scribnia Blog — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:26:50 +0000

[...] his blog, The Lost Jacket, that I wanted to share with our readers. Stuart recently blogged about The potential dangers of Twitter and other social media sites. He believed that Twitter’s lack of security will limit the service’s uptake and [...]

By: Russpd

Russpd — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 02:34:30 +0000

Yep great point David...though Facebook status is very similar to Twitter.

The threshold is so low for accepting a new friend on facebook or following someone on Twitter. I always accept friends on facebook whether I know them or not, and teenagers are always in search of proving their popularity. This is probably wildly impractical but I wonder if Facebook will one day roll out a service where people below 18 will not appear in search results unless you are in high school as well. This would go a long way in bringing safety to the service.

Anyway, I found this to be an enlightening discussion and it inspired its own post at my blog http://scribnia.com/blog/. Feel free to comment there and I will post some updates as this conversation continues.

By: David Spinks

David Spinks — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:21:11 +0000

Good points. I see twitter as having big privacy issues because of the “what are you doing” use. If a kid is posting where they are and what they're doing, its very easy for people with bad intentions to follow them. While facebook is dangerous in that the conversations are private and no one's watching, the publicly available content and information does not create the same threats as on twitter.