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On top of all the natural insecurities and volatile emotions that characterize adolescence, you can now add the girlish gossip-mongering of the Facebook age, where high school dating drama follows gals home and the family laptop becomes the central location of anxiety, woe, and “Oh no, she di-int.” Granted, they may just want to have fun, but growing girls don’t always have an easy time of it.
To add to the worry, the BBC reports that parents of teenage girls in the U.K. now cite addiction to online social networking as their number one concern. As Jill Berry, the president of the Girls’ School Association, puts it, girls are now apparently “permanently connected” to sites like Facebook and Bebo, and parents are worried. At the association’s annual conference, Berry detailed parents’ concerns over “what to do about their daughters being on the receiving end of ‘We hate x’ sites or ‘honesty boxes’ where comments about each other can be posted anonymously.”
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Parents Worried Girls Becoming Addicted to Facebook originally appeared on Switched on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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