“Groovy Motherfucker”

Excellent paper by danah boyd explaining just why teenagers are spending hours on myspace — Parents have become to paranoid about the “dangers” in the real world, that the only place kids can be themselves unsupervised is online.

Adrianne’s book is out, and it’s great. From the back cover: “They say Jesus loved the little children, all the children of the world, but he never had to dine with one. He chose the lepers.”

All the info on a remarkably well-done phishing scam. Even users trained not to fall for scams could fall for this.