Is it cool to be on Facebook with your parents and teachers?

With approximately 800 million users on Facebook, you are bound to bump into people you know, and that is really the point of any social network.  But now that our parents are on Facebook, and our grandparents, and our aunts and uncles, teachers, principals, and even the gray-haired manager of the local Piggly Wiggly, is Facebook still a cool place to hang out as a teenager?

This week the Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report about how some teenagers seem to be moving to Twitter and using their Facebook accounts a little less.  The Twittering teens say they like the ability to post things fast on Twitter like a text message, plus the ability to have multiple accounts and remain anonymous, things that are difficult to do on Facebook.  Even with policies in place, teens have long lied about their age and identity when creating Facebook profiles, and it sounds like these young users might be a bit turned off by the aging population now active in the world's most popular social network.

I use Facebook, Twitter and the PresBlog to share my thoughts with the world, and I whenever I am online I think about my Happy Kids Safe Schools platform, because I know Facebook can be a dangerous place for young kids how are the victims of cyberbullying.  As I've said before, Facebook and social media sites can be a lot of fun, but we have to be as responsible online as we are in real life.

This month I started my second semester in college at Vincennes University, and I am excited about finishing the semester and heading to Zionsville in June.  This spring I'm hoping to take a really fun class, something that might have me feeling like I'm in the deep end of the pool, so keep reading the PresBlog to hear more about my adventures at VU.

Don't forget to contribute to my Children's Miracle Network fundraising goal, and remember to find me and follow me to learn about how you can sponsor my trip to the state pageant.