Today, in my daily adventures on the web, I found this great site called That's Not Cool. If you have a daughter, son, niece, nephew, grandchild... I don't care, you need to get them on this site. It addresses how teens are controlled, disrespected and pressured through instant messaging, social networks and cell phones. The web site challenges teens to determine, "What's your digital line?"
Here is the site's current PSA that you may have caught on TV.
The site has a lot of fun videos, featuring sock puppet personalities (which I find, not only super cute, but incredibly endearing).
It also features web images called "Call Out Cards" that can be shared on many of the social networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace. I think these little cards can go a long way to spread the site's message. You'd be amazed at what kind of ripple effect they could cause. What if ten of us changed our online photos to one of these cards, or even posted one to our profile? How many teens would get the message that they don't have to take cyber stalking or cyber bullying? How many teens would feel more confident and more comfortable drawing their own digital line?
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Aw, I just posted this link on facebook last week - I find it so entertaining, educational, and useful! I feel like they should add this sort of curriculum (and even plug this site) in high school, like in health class where they talk about important healthy living decisions, etc.
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