Twitter for Education. A mini-course on network and social network literacy - howardrheingold's posterous. Social media: Teen portal or pitfall? More than a hundred years ago, when the telephone was introduced, there was some hand-wringing over the social dangers that this new technology posed: increased sexual aggression and damaged human relationships. "It was going to bring down our society," said Megan Moreno, a specialist in adolescent medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. "Men would be calling women and making lascivious comments, and women would be so vulnerable, and we'd never have civilized conversations again. " In other words, the telephone provoked many of the same worries that more recently have been expressed about online social media. "When a new technology comes out that is something so important, there is this initial alarmist reaction," Moreno said.
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