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Title:

A Brief History of Growing Up Online

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Organizer:
Maria Diaz, Writer
Description:
Recently, there has been a huge backlash against people, particularly women who chronicle their lives on the Internet. But the most interesting thing about this is this particular phenomenon has been going on for over a decade, primarily amongst teenage girls. In this panel, we will talk with some of the old school "bloggers" about coming of age baring it all on the Internet before everyone turned it into a punchline. We'll talk about why we did it, whether or not we still do it and how it has affected the way we lead our lives. We'll also touch upon what this means for the generation coming up, where sharing every minute detail has become the norm.
Questions
Answered:
  1. Why would anyone post this much information about themselves online, if not for massive attention?
  2. How has your life been affected by "oversharing" in a positive way? Less interestingly, in a negative way?
  3. What do we have to say to young women who are putting even more than we ever did online on their public profiles?
  4. Why are people so uncomfortable with the idea that others are willingly sharing information about themselves?
  5. is the backlash against people like Julia Allison & Emily Gould sexist? How would they have dealt with it in the old days of the Internet?
  6. How have you seen teenage girls' personal expression change from when you were doing it as a teen?
  7. Is this a waste of time for young women? Was it a waste of time? Isn't all this technical know how better spent on political blogging, etc?
  8. Why has blogging become legitimate since it became a more male, not as personal domain?
  9. What is the difference between the old school online journal and the new school blog?
Panelists:
Gala Darling (galadarling.com), Maria Diaz, moderator (Writer), Anna Genoese (alg.livejournal.com), Mark Shrayber (student), Sarah Wulfeck (wulfeck.com)
Level:
Beginner
Category:
Human / Social Issues
Type:
Panel
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Megan Allison Wade
on 8/8/08
This is a really interesting idea for me, and for many of the women I know who were born in the late 70's/early 80's and discovered the internet in adolescence, as a means of self-expression, utility, and ultimately social networking. The idea of the online diary is pervasive even in web 2.0 formats with ostensibly other purposes (ie. yelp, flickr) and I would be very interested in hearing firsthand accounts (especially from women and girls) of people who started this by building their own rudimentary pages to combat the horrors of junior high and high school.
Melissa Gira
on 8/8/08
For every girlblogger who got put down for just running an online "diary" to every "professional" blogger who started talking about his personal love on Twitter and feeling all revolutionary for it -- let's bridge the generation and gender gap, yes!
Janice James
on 8/8/08
Fantastic topic, I would love to listen in to this panel.
Maria Diaz
on 8/8/08
Thanks for the comments, everyone! I am working hard on getting a few good women to sit on the panel. I will update soon.
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on 9/8/08
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lauren perdue
on 9/8/08
Oh man this sounds awesome. five stars!
Miiko Mentz
on 10/8/08
This is a great topic for discussion. I'd love to see a panel that ranges in age, from young girls just starting to blog and chronicle their lives online on up to women bloggers who have grown up sharing all on blogs, MySpace, LiveJournal, etc. who can share how it has impacted their lives. Also, it might be interesting to have a mommy blogger, such as dooce (Heather B. Armstrong), who shares her daughter's life online in addition to her own. Great topic/panel idea. I hope it wins.
Maria Diaz
on 10/8/08
Thanks, Miiko! That is a great suggestion, it would be great to see how personal blogging has changed from when we were doing it to teen girls now, where this kind of self expresson is kind of the norm.

Thanks again for commenting. Please feel free to contact me for questions or panelist suggestions or any kind of comments at all, maria AT onesharpbroad . com

I will be updating this as well as my blog with panel updates!
Bart Scrivner
on 11/8/08
Will this also include strategies on how to deal with stalkers, etc.?
Maria Diaz
on 12/8/08
Bart, while we'll certainly touch upon being discovered by people in your real life, I don't want the focus to be "the dangers of being a teen girl online". Also, this panel is meant to be more of a retrospective, not really a how-to.

Thanks for the question!
laura beck
on 12/8/08
I cannot wait to sit in on this! It's great to see an idea that focuses on women too since so many of these panels seem to ignore us!
Ali Cherry
on 13/8/08
"...baring it all on the Internet before everyone turned it into a punchline" Well said! Also like the comment about having dooce on the panel. Look forward to attending this session.
alice marwick
on 16/8/08
I love this idea - focusing on mediums like LiveJournal, Xanga, Diaryland, etc. that are totally ignored today. Awesome idea.
Maria Diaz
on 19/8/08
Alice is totally on the mark here; I plan on discussing certain mediums that are totally ignored but widely used, like LJ, xanga, diaryland. Also plan on touching on the camgirl thing just a bit as that was happening at the same time this was.

So far, my plan for the discussion will go like this:
1) Brief overview of the domain grrl trend (hopefully w/ some mortifying screenshots provided by the Archive machine and our lovely panelists)
2) Discussion of how we all got into it
3) Discussion of what to share, how it got us into trouble, and how it has affected our online identities today, when sharing is the norm for young people

I have a few potential panelists, one is Melisser, former LJ queen turned vegan food blog celeb of the Urban Housewife (urbanhousewife.com) & Sarah Wulfeck formerly known as puce.com who took her small journal and turned it into a full fledged community site when she started being a camgirl. More panelists are in the works!

Derrick Jefferson
on 26/8/08
Sharing all my business out on the net is a fairly new thing for me, especially after writing so long for other people. With no editor, no deadlines, and no real rules, I've found it liberating. I'd love to hear what people thing about "oversharing" and compare it with my own confessional-esque blog. I'm not a woman (does being a homo count?); there *is* some overlap...
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