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For many parents, learning about new media technologies can seem like playing catch-up with their children. Teenagers, especially, are quick to learn new technologies: putting their music collection on iPods, texting on mobile phones, chatting on instant messaging services. They are also quick to drop a technology they think is old: the bad news for parents who’ve just gotten to grips with email is that many teenagers now consider it too slow. They have moved on to new and more exciting ways of communicating.
One of these new ways is social-networking websites. Though the chances are your teenage children will never say they’re on a social-networking website. Listen out, instead, for them to say they’re on Bebo, or MySpace, or Facebook. Thousands of Irish teenagers have joined one or more of these websites. Thousands of Irish teenagers use them safely everyday. A parent taking a first look at a social-networking website could be hard pressed to understand why a teenager would use one everyday. It can be difficult to see the attraction of using them at all. Social-networking websites can seem a confusing world of strange sights and sounds and puzzling language. It can seem a world where parents don’t fit in. That’s because parents aren’t meant to fit in. It’s a space created by teenagers and for teenagers.
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