Tag: TWEENS

Lying about your age is a time-honored Internet tradition, which is why it should come as no real surprise that plenty of preteens are on Facebook nowadays. Facebook officially forbids children under the age of 13 from using the site but, according to a study from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, there are plenty that do. About 46-percent of all American 12-year-olds use social ...

They pale in comparison to the teen with the $21,000 Verizon bill, but brother and sister Sam, 13, and Sarah Ivanhoe, 11, while on vacation to the Dead Sea with their mom, amassed a cell phone bill that cost nearly as much as their trip. According to My Fox Houston, Cindy, who pays for her kids' phones, received a bill totaling more than $9,700 from Verizon Wireless upon returning home to ...

Tween heartthrob Justin Bieber has learned to be spry! In case you haven't already brightened your days with videos of the boy (and his haircut) walking face-first into more than one glass door, it seemed for a while that the Biebs was unable to master the simple act of perambulation. So, naturally, he turned to the coolest and most enviable set of mechanical legs this side of Gob Bluth: the ...

The New York City Department of Education recently proposed an amendment to its disciplinary code that would punish students for sexting outside of school hours. Under the new rule, kids could face 90-day suspensions for sending sexy texts, e-mails or photos that cause disruptions in school -- regardless of where or when they were sent. The rule would also address instances of cyber-bullying. A ...

Kids spend a lot of time attached to some form of technology -- be it an iPod, a cell phone, or just vegging out on MySpace. But summer is here, which means some kids will be shipped off to camp and forced to unplug. It's not surprising that this has tweens and teens (and parents) panicking. Kids are used to being in constant contact with their peers via text messages and Facebook, and parents ...

When we were ten-years-old, nobody had cell phones. Back then, just owning a pager used to mean you were moving on up in the world. Now, pagers (remember when they were called 'beepers?') are passé, and pretty much everyone has a cell phone. Even the crazy semi-homeless guy down the block from us who begs for change and tells us about how the government is out to get him has a cell phone. ...