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...Cambridge (and by extension, Boston and its environs) is a great place to get to call home for four years, and you will shortchange your experience if you stay within the Harvard bubble. In the time it takes to upload pictures of the Yard to Facebook, you and your roommates could bond over sorbet at Christina’s or head out on adventure in downtown Boston. Because, really: if you’re going to procrastinate, you might as well get lost...
...Just as Vietnam had been America's first "living-room war," spilling carnage in dinnertime news broadcasts, so is the Iraq conflict emerging as the first YouTube war. Growing up in a world where they can swap MP3s as well as intimate details about their lives via MySpace or Facebook, American soldiers are swapping their Iraq experience as well. There's a byte-enabled intimacy to "The War Tapes," the film that bills itself as the first documentary about the war filmed by those fighting it. Critics of the mainstream media's war coverage might hope that the soldier...
...Both MySpace and a similar networking site, Facebook, are poised to have a growing role in November's election, and even more so by 2008. MySpace receives 58 million unique hits a month, most of which come from users ages 18 to 25. Since MySpace is free, it's an appealing way for a candidate to reach younger voters without risking any money on them. Facebook has a format that makes it less easy for political candidates to participate. Yet with more than 8 million student members, Facebook is well aware of its potential. Beginning in September, political candidates...
...meantime, candidates are grabbing for any online youth credibility they can. In some cases, that credibility comes from the candidates' own kids. Ned Lamont's daughter, Emily, runs his MySpace profile for her coursework as a Harvard sophomore. Twenty-year-old August Ritter also oversees the MySpace and Facebook profiles for his dad, Bill Ritter, a Democrat in Colorado's gubernatorial race...
...parents who have only a passing knowledge of MySpace, let alone the ever multiplying horde of competitors like Xanga, Facebook and Bebo, it may be hard to understand why kids flock to these sites and how they can be more dangerous than old-school chat rooms. The reason: in chat rooms, predators have to engage in conversation to get to know people. But on sites like MySpace, they can access gobs of information by reading users' profiles, which tend to include photos as well as blog entries and bantering with friends. "It's totally addictive," Hannah Kranz, 16, says...