1. Evertale - is a digital scrapbook of your real life, and it does this by writing itself through your mobile phone updates. Evertale uses your phone’s locations, meetings, music and calendar events to create a digital scrapbook of your life automatically.
I haven't used this one, and after reading a little bit more on this app, I'm not planning on using it anytime soon. From the description, everything just seems so automatic. Writing itself through your mobile phone updates using locations, meetings, and calendar events? Even though only I can have access to all these pieces of information recorded, I don't see the point of using this application. I mean, yay for the technological advancement of having your phone remember everything you do in person. But really I don't see what this app can do for me. If anything, for me, applications like these are only a waste of space. Don't hate ok, this is just my personal opinion.
2. Tumblr - is a free blog hosting platform where users can upload, tag and save photos, music, diary entries, videos…you name it you can save it on Tumblr. I hear many teens mention Tumblr when they talk about kids who keep online journals.
Tumblr is my kind of online sharing site. It is my personal favorite website, up to date. It's the site where I can both post and re-post my likes and interests, without giving away much personal information. In fact, sometimes, I derive inspiration and motivation from the posts in Tumblr and from the people I follow. So far, Tumblr has been the safest online sharing site for me.
3. Facebook - Teens use Facebook to store, share and save pictures. Many teens have told me that their Facebook is like their parent’s hall entryway–they have all of their most important pictures to show visitors.
Personally, I only ever use Facebook to get in touch with my groupmates and schoolwork nowadays. But yeah, Facebook was once like that (pertaining to the description above) for me as well. In later blog posts, I will be talking more about Facebook and privacy so be sure to keep checking!
4. Flickr - is a photo sharing and photo management website. Many teens who are avid photo takers and not huge writers love using Flickr to keep track of their photos.
I've never really owned a Flickr account. But I think it's a great way to receive credit and appreciation for one's photography and art! The people there seem nice enough as well.
With the rise of so much e-journals and social networking sites as such listed above, what do you think is the reason for them mushrooming? Or perhaps, the better question would be, why do teens love to share online so much?
How about for you? Any thoughts, comments, violent reactions, personal opinions on this post? Just leave a comment and we'll talk! :-)
Source: RadicalParenting
