Baton Rouge

One of our first nights here in Baton Rouge was spent downtown at a Live After Five concert, where we interviewed 50 people about how they’d use technology to rebuild the world.

One of the couples we interviewed actually got engaged later that night, with a romantic proposal on stage and everything! Racquel and I were surprised to find out that the couple had actually reunited after many years on Facebook. That got us thinking about whether parents and their kids use social networking sites differently. So we decided to interview the woman who got engaged and her 17-year-old daughter.

Racquel and I discovered that the mother and daughter had different uses for the internet and social networking sites. For Bridget, the mother, social networking sites are a way to reconnect with old friends, while her daughter uses MySpace to maintain her current relationships.