Youth Noise is a social networking site like MySpace that's designed to inspire youth to take a stand on issues. Users range in age from 16-22, and issues include world events, politics, poverty, and war. The site was recently relaunched on June 20 of this year, and currently claims about 120,000 users. The content is completely user generated. I think that this is a great way for kids to inform other kids on these issues, and inspire discussion and debate from their perspective on these issues. It's hard for some youth to grasp exactly how these world issues directly affect their lives, even if at all. I am also glad to see a social networking site that caters to educating this demographic, because other social networking sites that cater to this group mostly focus on what they think kids want. The fact of the matter is that there are kids out there 120,000 of them that are interested in world issues, and expressing their opinions on these issues. I hope several other social networking sites pop up that encourage and respect the youth perspective.
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