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Interactive Teen Websites - Archived Page from 1999
Special thanks to the UPFORGRABS email list from the Benton Foundation for their leads for this list! Last updated 3/16/1999. Update: September, 2007 to delete dead links. THIS IS NOT A GOOD LIST ANYMORE! It is just an artifact of an earlier day. Some of these URLs have been captured by Porn sites. Sad.
There are many teen sites on the net and new ones everyday, including individual teen-created websites. Not many have incorporated a range of interactive, community-building elements.
Chat is a popular interactive feature with online conferencing with bulletin boards a close second.
Some are open to all and others are moderated (someone is assigned to either be present and moderate in the chat room
or posts are screened before they go up on the web.) Interestingly, I did not find a huge number of interactive, issue-related teen sites
in this cursory run-through.
Below are some websites I identified with a quick search that are
issue related, and some broader teen sites. For an overview of some of the potential elements of online connection,
interaction or "community," please refer to the second part of the article
Connecting: The Promise of Interactive Websites and Online Community
If you have any suggestions for additions or changes to this list, please email Nancy.
Specific Issue-Related Teen Sites
- Open Voice - an organization that supports teen in creation of internet sites and communities on AOL.
- ACLU Student's Page Links for students on civil liberties issues.
- The Activists' Center for Training In Organizing and Networking with an environmental focus. Not a teen interaction site, but issue specific projects.
- Amnesty International No specific teen focus.
- City Kids Information site on the City Kids program. The only interactive element is a question/answer via email and posted on the website.
- Earthforce and environmental action site for youths 10-14 with project information. No direct interactive elements but project site feedback is available.
- Greenpeace - general organization homesite for the environment.
- Habitat for Humanity - Youth page on the general site on building homes for families in need describing youth involvement options and experiences.
- The In Site - Need advice about sex, drugs, health, relationships, how to make the world a safer, saner, more equitable place to live? If you've got questions, The Insite has answers.
- My Hero - site for youth to send in stories about their heros.
- Peacefire - Youth Against Internet Censorship site, including links, resources and information.
- National Wildlife Federation - general organization site with pages for college groups and younger children.
- National Consumers League - general organization site.
- Plugged In - a site for teen entrepreneurs.
- The Person Project - and email newsletter focusing on gay and lesbian issues.
- Rainforest Action Network - general organization site with younger "kids corner."
- Teenagers Guide to the Real World - With a special page of links on volunteering. No interaction.
- Teenwire by Planned Parenthood
Created by adults for teens, this site has limited interactivity with polls and email forms so teens can
send in questions and rate features. There is no chat room or bulletin board. Packed with information and links to Planned Parenthood clinics.
- Ready to Live: Art and Life Beyond Street Violence
Youth generated art in response to PBS special on the death of a young rap artist.
- Street Cents Forum
- Student Resource Links on the Environment
Part of a larger environmental education site, there are forums and resource links.
- Youth Speak Out
A project for youth to talk about issues and events. Designed for younger teens and children.
General Teen Sites (may have issue-related sections)
- Teenhelp.org - Peer-to-peer support network for teens, including forums, live chat, and articles on diverse topics including friendship, school, sexuality, suicide, job-hunting, and smoking.
- E-Teen
A site with a focus on volunteerism and community involvment. Uses contests, multicultural "guides" to help navigate the site, and offer teens free website space. No chat or forums.
- Teen.Com - The Place for Teens - HOME!
- First Cut - SF Chronicle's Teen Site (includes chat)
- GETTING REAL General teen site includes chat and BBS
- Student Center High School Cyberpals
- Yahoo! Society and CultureCultures and GroupsTeenagers
Teen, Issue and Advocacy "Meta" Sites (some food for thought...)
Produced by Nancy White of Full Circle Associates, March 1999, Updated March 2004
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