Growing Up on Facebook

March 15, 2009

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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