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Teens Overshare Internet

OMG! Twitter is the new Online Diary #Shareeverything

The Purple Fig | Posted 05.26.2013 | Canada Living
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The Purple Fig

Reassurance. Sympathy. Someone to "talk" to, as often as you wish and at all hours of day and night. All potential benefits of Twitter that may offer psychological comfort, but is the tradeoff of creating a public record of struggle and potential for damaging feedback worth it?

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Teaching Our Kids Not to Treat the Internet as a Private Diary

Hessie Jones | Posted 05.22.2013 | Canada Living
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Hessie Jones

I get that kids need an outlet to vent. I get that kids need to be with others who understand what they're going through. But this world of social has created an environment that eventually strings them along a path to a point where the very information they created can be their greatest demise.

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