Databases: Specific Facet...

Continuing with the same topic of preteens and the safety of social network sites, I constructed a specific facet search as follows:

Question: Are social networking sites safe for preteens?

Database: Lib Lit

Facets:
social network sites or chat rooms or blogs or online communities
preteens or tweens or kids or children
safe or secure or protected or harmless

I searched the S2 terms first because I thought going ahead and searching on the target age group would give the best results. Hits = 2554. Too many.

I then searched S1 and S3 individually and had 9038 hits for S1, and 21537 for the S3 facet.

I followed up with an S4 building block search (social network sites or chat rooms or blogs or online communities) AND (safe or secure or protected or harmless) AND (preteens or tweens or kids or children) and got 11 hits that were relevant to my search.

Following is a link to one of the 11 hits resulting from the specific facet search:

Title: Not your Mother's Parenting Books
Other Titles: Bibliographical essay
Personal Author: Riess, Jana
Journal Name: Publishers Weekly
Source: Publishers Weekly v. 254 no. 32 (August 13 2007)
p. S8, S10
Publication Year: 2007
Abstract: Part of a special section on religion publishing. Christian publishers are producing books that deal with Internet-driven social networking. Connie Neal, author of MySpace for Moms and Dads: A Guide to Understanding the Risks and the
Rewards, says she is attempting to help bridge the technology gap between parents and kids over social networking sites as the kids understand the technology but need
the parents' wisdom and experience to be safe. The theme of having parents involved, monitoring their kids' activities online, is echoed in other up-to-date tech books for parents of teens and tweens, a new but growing subcategory in Christian publishing. Another forthcoming book in this sphere will come with the September release of Vicki Courtney's Logged on and Tuned Out: A Non-techie's Guide to Parenting a Tech-Savvy Generation, from B&H Publishing Group.
Subject(s): Publishers and publishing/Religious literature; Parenting/Bibliography; Religious literature/Evaluation; Social networks; Microcomputers/Children's use
Physical Description: Illustration
ISSN: 0000-0019
Language of Document: English
Document Type: Bibliography
Database: Readers' Guide (Current Events); Library & Information Science
Accession Number: 200722501035014

In my opinion, this seems to be the least effective search method, even less than Boolean logic. If you are going to go to all the trouble of laying out a search stragegy, why would you search related phrases individually? It just seems to be waste of time.