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television producer and writer
Co-producer and writer on Generation Like
PROFILE
Frank Koughan
Guest
FROM Frank Koughan
To the Point
Are the Kids on the Internet Alright After All? A generation of teens lives more in the virtual world than the real one and adult anxiety is producing calls for a crackdown on social networking sites. But Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram are now the places where kids can do what kids always do: hang out with their peers. They may give up their privacy, submit to commercial exploitation and become vulnerable to cyber-bullying, but researchers say that's not the whole story. We hear from one who's embedded herself with teenagers and reports on how the world looks from their point of view.
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