Youth Culture – Teen’s Social Power, Sex, and Generations

culture

Feature youth culture link: Teen Social Media Influencers Wield Power Online and Offline

The survey dispels the notion that the most engaged teens on a social network are most likely to be home alone on a Saturday night; those teens who are most social online are most social offline

Other articles:

CDC says, “Teen Boys’ Fear of Impregnating Girls Drops”

“This ambivalence is one of the most hair-raising headlines from this report,” said Bill Albert, chief program officer for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, a Washington-based advocacy group. “It explains why 3 in 10 girls in the U.S. become pregnant by age 20.”

Read more

The Why Worry Generation @ NYTimes

Millennials, born between 1982 and 2002, have been depicted more recently by employers, professors and earnestly concerned mental-health experts as entitled whiners who have been spoiled by parents who overstoked their self-esteem, teachers who granted undeserved A’s and sports coaches who bestowed trophies on any player who showed up”

Read more

Top 10 downloaded songs on iTunes, what are your kids listening to?

  1. California Gurls (feat. Snoop Dogg)
    Katy Perry
  2. OMG (feat. will.i.am)
    Usher
  3. Your Love Is My Drug
    Ke$ha
  4. Rock That Body
    Black Eyed Peas
  5. Alejandro
    Lady GaGa
  6. Bulletproof
    La Roux
  7. Break Your Heart (feat. Ludacris)
    Taio Cruz
  8. Find Your Love
    Drake
  9. Cooler Than Me
    Mike Posner
  10. Can’t Be Tamed
    Miley Cyrus

warning