Caribou Alternative High School
Everyone has some way of expressing his or her self. For most teens, it’s through Myspace. On Myspace, we can express ourselves through music, colors, words and pictures. I can show who I am and what my beliefs are and be proud of them. I can also meet other people that have the same ideas and feelings as me. In a small town like Caribou, we are not exposed to many different types of people like many others in larger more urban area. You choose who your Myspace friends are; you choose what you want on your Myspace page from your background to your music to your comments.
The famous saying “Don’t knock it until you try it.” Well, I think that it’s about time that parents start taking their own advice. Stop judging Myspace until you experience it for yourself. Why don’t you get your own Myspace? Send a friend request to your teen, it’s a whole new way to get to know your teen. You learn what kind of music your teens are listening to, who your teens are talking to, and what kind of person they really are. Would you rather know what is going on in your child’s life, who their friends are and be able to talk to them about what they are doing or go through life and be blind sided by your child?
On Myspace you can post poems, write about your feelings in a blog, and if you don’t want anyone else to see it you can simply click “private”. In health class we learn that writing in a journal can be beneficial to a person’s health.
It is one way we can relieve stress.
I feel that Myspace should be encouraged to teens rather than be thought of as a negative Web site, that is blocked on school computers.
The best way to teach is by setting example, yet we’re blocked from a Web site that lets us express ourselves?
Many parents have issues with Myspace. Is it that parents don’t like this site or is it that they do not want to accept who their children really are and what they are doing?
