Poll: IMs Help Teens Avoid Embarrassment

Teens hiding behind their words (literally). It was shown in an online survey conducted by Knowledge Networks consisting of 410 teens and 836 adults that teenagers use the IM ( instant message) method far more than adults. Some adults say they may sign on to speak to others maybe once a day while for their teenagers that is just an understatement. They are signing on maybe 10 times a day speaking to maybe 10 buddies at a time. It was also found that these teenagers while they are speaking to friends, relatives and boyfriends and girlfriends they may use the IM as a form of canceling dates maybe even breaking up. How convenient
is this break up with your boring boyfriend over the computer and you do not have to see his sad facial expression?

Dooce and Pepy's Diary a form of Digital Publication?

I do believe both blogs Dooce and Pepys were similar yet different in many ways but for the most part they did in fact display a form of digital publication. What better way to digitally display anything then on the Internet. The Internet has been the new wave of the future leading to many questions and a variety of answers. Dooce's blog by Heather B. Armstrong does seem a little more comfortable to read especially for the female crowd but also because it uses simple modern day language. Pepys blog although it's setting is during the 1600's his language also seems very simple however for me I found it boring. His layout is pretty straight forward and his diary is just, I woke up. I went to church etc..... I do like the fact that he does not have any advertisements though it doesn't distract you to look at anything else. Although he probably wanted it that way so that you could continue to read about his very boring life and not an advertisement about photos or something. Another reason why I liked Dooce's blog better is because she used very descriptive words and made sure you actually saw what was going on and her blog form of writing about these things gave the reader a feeling that they could actually respond to her postings, maybe even relate.