And one [teenager] said to me: ‘My God, it used to be that when you went away to college, you got a chance to start fresh, to be a new person. …I bet that was great.’ And I think that this sense of the Facebook identity sort of as your - something that follows you all your life is something that many adolescents feel is a burden.
In Constant Digital Contact, We Feel ‘Alone Together” (Fresh Air)
This aligns with the rise of Snapchat, which I read about last spring and again this week in New York Magazine. The app lets users send images which can disintegrate after seconds, allowing teenagers to experience the disposable high school identify of yesteryear.
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