青少年在MySpace上泄露不良行为

Teens Divulge Risky Behavior on Social Networking Sites
% [3 f- h3 T$ O( E& x+ V2 b( G3 qBy Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter
6 p  Z* ^8 W  J! J) n' jTuesday, January 6, 2009; 12:00 AM
  n( _' y: z& P4 nMONDAY, Jan. 5 (HealthDay News) -- More than half of teens who use the social networking site MySpace have posted information about sexual behavior, substance abuse or violence, new research shows.
The good news, according to a second study from the same research group, is that a simple intervention -- in this case, an-e-mail from a physician -- made some of the teens change their risky behaviors.
& q" X3 k6 }) ^! h: S  `+ Z"I was surprised, at least to some extent, at how clearly teens were discussing behaviors that we struggle to get out of them," said Dr. Megan Moreno, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
; V# g3 Z2 Q& \% N"Once we started getting the findings, we wondered, why are they doing this?" Moreno said. "Do they not get it? And, if they don't understand that this is public, can we send them a cautionary message to let them know just how public their information really is?" Moreno was working at the University of Washington and Seattle Children's Research Institute at the time the studies were done.
"We need to devise ways to teach teens and their parents to use the Internet responsibly," study senior author Dr. Dimitri Christakis, director of the Center for Child Health, Behavior and Development at Seattle Children's Research Institute, said in a statement.
  T' J. Y& e- R& rResults from the two studies appear in the January issue of the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
; G" M# r2 h: }  w- D7 n6 BMore than 90 percent of teens in the United States have access to the Internet, according to background information from the studies. About half of all teens who use the Internet also use social networking sites, such as MySpace and Facebook. MySpace boasts more than 200 million profiles, according to the studies, and about one-quarter of those belong to teens under 18.
% S, z# U5 e4 h6 Z: U2 qMoreno and her colleagues randomly selected 500 MySpace profiles from people who reported their age as 18. They collected the information during the summer of 2007.
7 P) l3 x! x, Z3 xThey found that 54 percent of the profiles contained information on risky behaviors, with 24 percent referencing sexual behaviors, 41 percent referring to substance abuse and 14 percent posting violent information.
/ I+ Y& L8 Q- L/ P1 qFactors associated with a decreased risk of posting risky behaviors included displaying religious involvement or involvement with sports or hobbies.
For the second study, the researchers randomly selected 190 profiles of people between 18 and 20 who displayed risky behaviors, such as sexual information. Half were sent an e-mail from a physician that pointed out that the physician had noticed risky behavior on their profile and suggested changing the displayed information. The e-mail message also provided information on where to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases.
. s- c# h: y4 V! E) i+ Q2 f, w, ?6 q9 hAlmost 14 percent of those who got the e-mail deleted references to sexual behavior, compared with 5 percent of the others.
* |1 k1 w" k; q$ F5 m! W1 f9 J"This was a creative and unique way to reach kids," said Kimberly Mitchell, the author of an accompanying editorial in the same issue of the journal and a research professor at the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
Mitchell advised parents not to try to forbid their children from using these sites altogether. "It's important for parents to understand how important these social networking sites are to kids," she said. "They're here to stay, and they're not all evil. There can be some really positive aspects to these sites. But adolescents aren't necessarily thinking 10 years ahead, when employers or college administrators may look at these sites. Teens live in the here and now, so parents need to talk to kids about the longer-term impacts and help them think through some of the repercussions."
Moreno suggested that parents ask teens to show them their MySpace or Facebook pages. "Teens will definitely balk, but they balk at lots of things, like curfews," she said. "Some parents feel it's a violation of privacy, like reading a diary, but it's out there, it's public."
Parents should use this information as a conversation starter, Moreno suggested.
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Parents should use this information as a conversation starter

青少年在社交网站上暴露出危险行为
- P1 e8 H5 h6 j: ^新的调查研究指出：超过一半的青少年曾通过社交网站MySpace发布过关于性行为、毒品滥用或暴力等信息。
根据该组织经过二次研究得出的可喜消息，在这个案例中，医生通过发电子邮件进行简单干预，使其中一部分青少年纠正了危险行为。
威斯康星-麦迪逊大学的儿科学助理教授Megan Moreno谈到：“青少年如此正大光明的谈论我们唯恐躲之不及的行为，至少在一定程度上，我对此感到吃惊。”
! e- i3 }& _: m% b“一旦我们开始调查结果，我们就想，他们为什么这么做？”Moreno说。“难道他们不明白？而且，如果他们不知道这是公开的，我们能不能给他们发个警示信息，让他们知道发布的信息是多么的公开？”那时Moreno是在华盛顿大学和西雅图儿童研究所做完这项研究的。
) X" \% J8 ^% w“我们需要采取各种措施来教导青少年和他们的家长负责任的使用互联网，”西雅图儿童研究所儿童健康行为发展中心主任、研究高级作者Dimitri Christakis博士在一份声明中说道。这两份研究的结果发表在一月的《儿科和青少年医学档案》杂志中。
在美国将近90%的青少年有机会接触互联网，根据各项研究背景资料，接近一半的青少年在上网的同时也在浏览社交网站，如MySpace和Facebook ，MySpace拥有超过200万个人资料，根据研究，约四分之一的人属于18岁以下的青少年。
+ [% l0 W  Q4 h1 m' ~Moreno和她的同事随机抽取了500份填报年龄为18岁的Myspace个人资料，他们在07年夏天收集的资料。
他们发现，有54%的个人资料中含有危险行为的信息，其中24%涉及性行为，41%药物滥用和14%发布过暴力信息。
' Y0 V0 ]" ^) G5 z一些相关降低危险行为风险的措施包括宗教信仰、参与体育活动或找到自己的爱好。
( Z" A$ S, {4 D( |# O! Z第二次研究，研究者有随机抽取了190份年龄在18到20岁之间的个人资料，他们都表现出如性信息的危险行为，其中有一半收到过一生发来的电子邮件，邮件中说，医生已经注意到他们个人资料中的危险行为并建议修改显示的信息。那些电子邮件也提供了一些哪里去检测性传播疾病的信息。
" e! }: U: X+ E$ [# F3 ^收到邮件的有14%删除了有关性行为的信息，相比而言，没有收到的只有5%删除了。
  u) d" p+ ]. G“这是一个富有创造性和独特的接触儿童的方式，”同一期杂志中附随社论的作者Kimberly Mitchell指出，Kimberly Mitchell是位于Durham新罕布什尔大学儿童犯罪危害研究中心的研究教授。
Mitchell建议家长不要试图完全禁止他们的孩子浏览这些网站，“对家长来说，了解这些社交网站对孩子的重要性也很重要，”她说：“这下网站之所以存在并不全是罪恶的，应该有一些积极的方面。青少年不必想到10年之后，那时雇主或学校管理员可能浏览这些网站。青少年生活在现实，生活在现在，所以家长需要和孩子谈一谈其中的长期影响从而帮助他们想到一些之后的反响。
Moreno 建议家长让孩子展示自己的MySpace或Facebook的网页。“孩子们一定会坚决反对，但他们会反对很多事情，比如禁宵，”她说，“一些家长会感到这是侵犯隐私，就像地孩子的日记一样，它就摆在那里，是公开的、”
, m) m/ U& ^5 O4 J; T8 q" \0 iMoreno建议，家长应该利用这些信息开始和孩子交流。

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