Amazing Social Media

Amazing Social Media It's amazing how much you can learn in a day. Every time that I am on the internet I come across useful information regarding nutrition, sexual health, relationship safety, and/or pregnancy prevention. Today I stumbled across an article about the new vaccines that are recommended for tweens and teens, information that I never knew when I was a teenager that I wish I had known: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/PreteenVaccines/?s_cid=tw_cdc1206 Then, last week I discovered that there was a birth control for men, an injection that is proved 100% effective, that is more than any other birth control that isn't abstinence. Let's see how many men will actually use it: http://dvice.com/archives/2011/05/injectable-birt.php. Last but not least, I came across a couple new "teen trends" that I thought to be extremely upsetting. One of the new reports that I read was about a young girl who was having fun at a party, and sucking helium out of a balloon to make her voice sound like a mouse. She inhaled too much and died, it's hard for people to know when to stop: http://news.yahoo.com/teenage-girl-dies-inhaling-helium-party-222518777.html;_ylt=ApN1jx6xMVYfDHt1t4BwbeWs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNqOHFiYmNqBGNjb2RlA2N0LmMEcGtnAzAzOTk0YzczLWVlYjMtMzU5OC05NzVhLTI2NzJiMTMxMzE5NQRwb3MDMgRzZWMDbW9zdF9wb3B1bGFyBHZlcgMxODU4NjAxMS01ZTM4LTExZTEtYmY3NS1hYTdkNzBjZjMxMzc-;_ylg=X3oDMTFvdnRqYzJoBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25zBHRlc3QD;_ylv=3 The second piece of information that I found to be upsetting was that girl's as young as 12 are posting about themselves on YouTube. On the Today Show they interviewed three teenage girl's who had posted videos asking others to "rate" their looks on the internet. Some of the responses that they got back were not positive which did not help their self esteem: http://video.today.msnbc.msn.com/today/46511399#46511399