Social Media, Social Life:

Communications media—whether pen and paper, phone calls, Facebook, or Twitter — can exacerbate or alleviate the perils of teenage life, or even do both at the same time. But today’s social media have the potential to amplify age-old anxieties and rites of passage in ways that yesterday’s communications media did not — by opening once-private exchanges for an entire school to see, adding photos and videos to words, allowing an entire community the chance to comment on what is seen or heard or said online...

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