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Healy, Melissa. "Social Media | Teenage Social Media Butterflies May Not Be Such a Bad Idea - Los Angeles Times." //Featured Articles From The Los Angeles Times//. 18 May 2010. Web. 16 Nov. 2011.

Summary Families and people across the world are stressing about how much kids spend in a day on some kind of technology. It's gotten more worse, kids have been spending more time on there cell phone, ipods, xboxes, etc more than going outside or doing homework. Most kids are hooked on certain websites that are games all day they just sit in front of the computer. All in all kids don't spend enough time doing stuff thats active and healthy but do things that you don't even do anything but just sit there and waste away their day.

Quotes 1. "I think the majority of kids use it in ways that don't jeopardize their well-being," Said one mother.

2. "People are always worried about the Internet making it easier for strangers to hurt your children," Mills says. But she points out, "The dangers are the old dangers of whom they hang out with."

3. "So parents of well-adjusted teens may have little to worry about regarding the way their children behave when using social media," Mikami added. "It's likely to be similarly positive behavior."

Facts

1. In one new study, 13 and 14 year olds were found to interact on social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.

2. 86% of children who used social media sites participants who were better adjusted in their early teens.

3. In studies of teenagers and young adult, Cal State L.A. psychology professor Kaveri Subrahmany.