MySpace Redefines High School Grief Counseling

January 19, 2007 at 12:19 pm (disruptive, social web)

A couple of recent articles have illustrated how high school students are dealing with peer fatalities (car crashes mostly) through using MySpace.  The social networking phenomenon is really a perfect fit for grief/peer counseling.

To many people reading this, it is just another obvious example of how we use the web.  But for those who don’t understand it, this is a perfect example of how the social web is changing all of our lives (and its not a bad thing for crying out loud).

From a newspaper in Indiana: Internet generation shares grief online | The Star Press – www.thestarpress.com – Muncie, IN

From a Bay Area newspaper: Internet helps teens cope with loss | Inside Bay Area

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