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FRONTLINE explores the complicated new lines being drawn between the real and virtual worlds for today’s children and teens and for their parents.
MySpace. YouTube. Facebook. Friendster. Nearly every teen in
America is on the Internet every day, socializing with friends and
strangers alike, "trying on" identities and building a virtual
profile of themselves - one that many kids insist is a more honest
depiction of who they really are than the person they portray at
home or in school.
In "Growing Up Online," FRONTLINE peers inside the world of this
cyber-savvy generation through the eyes of teens and their parents,
who often find themselves on opposite sides of a new digital
divide. A generation with a radically different notion of privacy
and personal space, today's adolescents are grappling with issues
their parents never had to deal with: from cyber bullying to
instant "Internet fame" to the specter of online sexual
predators.
FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin investigates the risks, realities
and misconceptions of teenage self-expression on the World Wide
Web.