Ypulse Essentials: Britney Is Candies Girl, ‘It’s Your Sex Life,’ Webkinz ‘Caring Valley’
Posted by anastasia on 04-02-2009
Britney is the latest… (Candies girl. Plus a cross media case study of how Pepsi and Mountain Dew plugged into the young electorate. And teens heart online coupons.) (Media Post, reg. required)
- It’s Your Sex Life (MTV, Kaiser Family Foundation, Planned Parenthood and other orgs launched a month-long effort to encourage every sexually-active, under 25 year old to get tested for STDs. Plus most teens not getting preventative health care. And teen binge drinking in the UK is “serious” and “chronic.”) (USA Today) (Science Daily)
- Tween boys develop perfume (that smells like “sunshine.” Plus Webkinz makes its virtual world more pro-social with the “Caring Valley”. And PopCap, a casual games company, launched a teen art contest.)
- Colleges fear student rejection letters (and less tuition. And even in tough economic times, spring break lives on.) (USA Today)
- The state of LGBT fiction (for young adults) (After Ellen)
- More useless legislation (requiring parental consent to join a social network in the state of Illinois. New study separates fact from fiction about online predators [finally]) (Media Post, reg. required) (ars technica)
Categorized under: Ypulse Essentials
April 2nd, 2009 at 11:57 am
RE “More useless legislation (requiring parental consent to join a social network in the state of Illinois.”
Website owners have First Amendment rights.
That is equally true of newspaper websites and social-networking websites.
Illinois can’t tell the Chicago Sun-Times that it needs the parents’ permission to publish an interview with a minor.
Nor can Illinois tell MySpace that it needs the parents’ permission to publish a minor’s lists of his favorite rock bands and movies.