This is the permanent link for a digression that was posted on March 15th, 2009 and tagged adolescence, adulthood, college, facebook, human development, identity. If you would like to see all posts filed in the Digressions category, click here.
Growing Up on Facebook is an interesting editorial on how Facebook impacts adolescents in their transition into adulthood. “College was my big chance to doff the roles in my family and community that I had outgrown, to reinvent myself, to get busy with the embarrassing, exciting, muddy, wonderful work of creating an adult identity. Can you really do that with your 450 closest friends watching, all tweeting to affirm ad nauseam your present self?”


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