A recent and interesting article to come out of Child and Adolescent Mental Health is a brief discussion of the possibilities of using social networking sites, such as MySpace, as counselings tool to engage adolescent clients.
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Social networking sites serve as counseling tools
by Andy DeSoto on June 19, 2008
Other social networks to try besides Facebook
by Andy DeSoto on May 29, 2008
My blog feed passes by a captive audience of my Facebook friends every time I publish a new post. To many of us, Facebook is the first social network we became involved in and it’s the one we stay most active in, too. However, it doesn’t necessarily need to be this way; there are plenty [...]
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Can online networks be the foundation of true relationships?
by Andy DeSoto on June 11, 2008
Two nights ago, I wrote a brief post hypothesizing that personal exchanges are what make social networks meaningful. In the few hours since I published the article, though, I’ve already heard carefully-reasoned opinions that this might not be the case from two different angles. As a follow-up, I decided to examine this topic, and these two angles, in a little more depth.
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