From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point.

Are the kids on the Internet? All right, after all.

Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International.

A day you look at the issues Americans care about most.

A generation of

teens lives more in the virtual world than the real one, and adult anxiety is producing

calls for a crackdown on social networking sites. But Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram are now

the places where kids do what kids always do, hang out with their peers. They may give up their

privacy, submit to commercial

exploitation, and become vulnerable to cyberbullying, but researchers say that's not the whole

story. We'll hear from one who's embedded herself with teenagers and reports on how the world

looks from their point of view. Today's talking point, a deadly resurgence of swine flu

with six weeks to go in the season.

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Hello again, Mormon-A I'll be back with To the

point. Among parents, teachers, and other adults, there is widespread distress about the dangers

faced by young people on the internet. Today we'll hear that a crackdown on digital social

networking might be exactly the wrong solution, especially from the kids' point of view.

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