{"id":2575,"date":"2005-08-05T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-05T19:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2018-02-11T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T01:04:09","slug":"st-louis-post-dispatch-warning-parents-like-its-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/05\/st-louis-post-dispatch-warning-parents-like-its-1999\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Post-Dispatch Warning Parents Like It&#8217;s 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/columnists.nsf\/techtalk\/story\/C1A634EB32741A7B86256F8F005FE9D9?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Instant messaging: A threat to you and your kids?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nIt&#8217;s hard to imagine anything online as &#8220;old-fashioned&#8221; just yet. Nevertheless, that\u2019s how young teens today apparently view the concept of e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Recent research shows most teenagers between ages 12 and 17 prefer &#8220;instant messaging,&#8221; or IM, to e-mail in getting their message across. They cite IM&#8217;s immediacy and its constant connection, especially to friends, as the reasons they prefer it to e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the same things that make IM appealing to teens also draw another crowd: malicious programmers, spam merchants and online predators. These sinister characters don\u2019t use IM to keep in touch with each other; they use it to keep in touch with your kids.<\/p>\n<p>Scarier still, most parents don\u2019t know it.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which &#8220;parents&#8221; are those?  Oh, yeah, the ones who get their &#8220;news&#8221; from the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> (which could also be known as the <i>Pre-Contemporary,-Ubiquitous-Technological-Advance<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instant messaging: A threat to you and your kids? It&#8217;s hard to imagine anything online as &#8220;old-fashioned&#8221; just yet. Nevertheless, that\u2019s how young teens today apparently view the concept of e-mail. Recent research shows most teenagers between ages 12 and 17 prefer &#8220;instant messaging,&#8221; or IM, to e-mail in getting their message across. They cite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19459,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/19459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}