• “… teenage bloggers have been known to portray themselves as engaging in risqué behavior, even when such is not the case—like the ‘girls who had blogged about weekends of drinking and debauchery, while in reality they were coloring with a their younger siblings or watching old movies with Grandma.’” (113)
Last year, I worked for a company called produced an educational software, one in particular that targets college students. That product had a sexual health module and the company’s researchers found that most college students overestimated the amount of sex and drinking of other students. A big push for this software was to educate students about what was really happening on their campus. I wasn’t surprised to see that this behavior (to exaggerate drinking and debauchery) begins early in the teenage years. It just highlights that while it seems that private lives have been push public, it doesn’t mean that what is portrayed is the truth.
• Brolsma’s Numa Numa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60og9gwKh1o (115). South Park recreated this video as well!
• Nature article: Britannica vs Wikipedia: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v438/n7070/full/438900a.html (this article was updated in 2006, but you need to pay to see the full article. The bbc.co.uk article summarizes the 2005 article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4530930.stm)(124)
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