Teens have always gone where identity isn't

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teens have always gone where identity isn't
Jonathan Libov , Whoops, March 11, 2013
Statements that describe an entire demographic - 'teens', say - are always dubious and subject to counterexamples, but beyond the hyperbole is a point worth taking home in this text: "Teens eschew Facebook and Twitter for Instagram, Tumblr, Snapchat and other apps not because they're a new, different generation, but because they don't yet have much of an identity to boast of." Such spaces allow them to try on new identities, and to be someone they aren't. More...