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