Living Their Lives Essentially Online: the very public private lives of teenagers that are almost entirely outside the control, sometimes even the awareness of their parents. Kids often consider the online world a continuation of their existence, a currency that is used, and from which they are unwilling to disconnect.

Revolution in Classroom and Social Life:
Teachers feel the pressure to become entertainers and the need to integrate technology into the classroom to keep the attention of the students who are masters at multitasking onscreen/online, and are used to the quickness and immediate response of the internet. Many use it to "read" assigned books and do assignments. What is cheating and what isn't cheating? If the goal is to understand and analyze the literature, then does the how matter? does the definition of cheating need to change?
Social networking sites such as myspace and facebook are based in the profile page- the space where the user defines themselves and decide how and what they will say to the online world. Fights spill online from offline and offline from online (ex. the high school girls commenting on rivals sites and throwing fighting insults online- then a fight breaking out offline- and being filmed and put back online on youtube) .

Self Expression, Trying on New Identities- seperating online/offline creating a new name, a new self (Autumn Edows), feeling more comfortable with that new persona than with the offline person.
Why is the world offline called the real world? How is the online world not real?

Child Predator Fear: Parents are terrified of the worst case scenario's, maybe because they don't know how to- or even if they can- control it and protect the children. "Parents need to take control of the computer" But can they? Passwords and access to this new world.
A study showed the kids know to be beware, they are smart, usual only socialize with people they know in the offline "real" world and any actually instances of murky are smack in the middle of the gray area- not the evil, serial wierdo that floats in the nightmares of parents- but a "hey baby your profile picture is cute" from some normal person.

Private World Outside Parents Reach? Teenagers feel that they can be a real person online in a space they perceive as free of judgment. Parents say that their kids are talking to the internet not real people or them. But is that just a difference of perspective towards the internet? Kids talk to other people using the medium of the internet, and these people are real. For the parents it is a piece of hardware that connects to an unreal space and unreal people.

Cyberbullying: Bullying is as real online as offline; the medium changes but the intents and results are able to cross without bounds.