Unsupervised online teens & other myths

There are a lot of smart parents (and online teens) out there, research is showing. The former are clearly transferring their parenting skills and policies into cyberspace, and the latter – teenagers – seem to be fine with that. "More than 70% of the adolescents said they'd feel comfortable having their parents look at their MySpace page," a recent survey of MySpacers and their parents in Los Angeles found. For some key take-aways from a study of MySpacers and their parents at Cal State University and from a Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg study, please see this week's issue of my newsletter.