Social-networking for Children

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This blog posting by a student at the University of Washington's Masters of Communications in Digital Media, while unfortunately uncited, states that about 80% of all elementary school in Taiwan use "Uschool" as their official social-networking platform. She goes on to claim that 50% of elementary schools in Shanghai, China use the same system. If true, it's a remarkably progressive example of such technology use which l I assume, because there is no data available, far outpaces either U.S. or European adoption rates. One reason might be its usage policy which expressing not collecting any personally identifiable information from users under the age of 13. The only information collected by these users is a parent’s email address and then it’s only used to activate an account.

Unknown, T. (2009, May 25). Social-networking for Children. Flig The Media. Blog, . Retrieved July 12, 2009, from http://flipthemedia.com/index.php/2009/05/social-networking-for-children/#comment-3606.